NEW YORK, NY – According to a recent survey conducted by America Online, the country’s internet users can stop blaming their spam problems on porn, but they can level their complaints at Donald Trump and penis patches.Nearly a half-trillion junk emails sent out during 2005 were blocked by the AOL spam filters from reaching the company’s 26 million users, which is slightly more than the year before. But it wasn’t porn spam that was getting caught in the industry giant’s spam net. Instead, the top 10 unwanted emails included copious deceptive messages alleged to be from subscriber friends or legitimate organizations – or claiming to relate to mundane business matters such as mortgage applications.
“Porn is passé when it comes to spam,” AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham insists, based on the 1.5 billion emails blocked each day by the company’s gateway filters, which reject eight of every 10 messages received.
