SPAM: As we’re perusing our email each day, we can’t help but notice the number of spam emails we receive, most of which are thankfully caught by a filter.

Would you believe that in 2022, 49% of the 333 billion emails sent each day were spam? Staggering. Let’s take a look at some of the numbers in the spam “industry,” from a site called emailtooltester.com

The majority of people (96.8%) have received spam messages in some form.

The U.S. sends the most spam emails, with 8 billion per day on average, but Greece sends the highest proportion of spam emails, with 95% of emails sent containing spam.

Over two-thirds (68.8%) of people who had received spam and/or phishing messages reported their mental health being impacted at least a little as a result.

Delivery services were the most common subject of spam text messages in the U.S. in the first half of 2023, with over 1.1 billion scam texts relating to this topic.

The most common channel people say they receive spam through is email, with almost half (49%) saying they receive spam via emails most often. This was followed by phone calls (26.5%), then text messages (14.7%), and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger came lowest with 9.8%.

In total, men are victims of scams over the phone more often than women. Of all people who had been the victim of a phone scam in a period of 12 months, 59.4% were men, and 38.3% were women.

The most common victims of scam calls are men aged between 35 and 44, with 46% of people in this group falling victim to a phone call scam. This is followed by men aged 18-34 (40%), and women aged 18-34 (31%).