If there is no spam, working hours could be shortened up to 3 days
According to Belgian newspapers, German scientists found, that annoying spam messages costs us quite a lot of time every day.
Scientists say, that separating and deleting of spam messages stints average working person for about 1.200 minutes per year. Depending on lenght of work week it means almost 3 days per year.
Spam contains for example different e-mails offering sale of medicine, cosmetics products or insurance. But more often spam messages do not contain only advertisement, but also harmfull computer viruses, which can cause serious damage to your computer or copy delicate personal data.
About 29 percent of spam messages worldvide comes from USA, eight percent from Turkey and 7 percent from Russia. Big source of spam are also India, China and South Korea with participation about 4 percent.
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