Urban Legend: Online Casinos Do Spam

Email traffic over the Internet has long been taken over by spammers. A recent survey reports that the problem has only worsened in 2007.

Online gambling sites, however, are only a minor source of this problem.

Websense Security Laboratories of San Diego, has listed the all too familiar spam techniques used by problem sites. They include: worms, Trojan horses, bots, spam agents and other storm attacks. Going on the web without proper protection is a risk no individual or organization is advised to take.

The Internet security firm has reported that 87% of all email messages sent worldwide in the second half of 2007 were spam. Of this number, less than 4% were linked to online gambling websites.

These numbers were acquired by running the company's technology on 600 million websites and 350 million emails a week.

It serves to prove two things: spam is a problem, and online gambling sites are not.