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Cupertino, California (pte031/10.06.2003/14:30) - Nearly 80 per cent of children with an e-mail account receive spam messages on a daily basis, many of them advertising lotteries, dating services or pharmaceutical products.
A study carried out by Internet security firm Symantec http://www.symantec.com has revealed that up to 47 per cent of children with e-mail accounts also receive spam messages with links to pornographic websites. About 20 per cent of the kids questioned said they opened spam mail when the subject line appeared interesting to them http://www.symantec.com/press/cgi/printfriendlypress.cgi?release=2003/n030609a.html .
The study, which was carried out by market researchers Applied Research, interviewed 1,000 young people and children between the ages of seven and eighteen. Of those surveyed, 76 per cent said they had one or several e-mail accounts, and 72 per cent said they checked their electronic mail between several times a week to several times a day. Almost every third child said its parents did not monitor its e-mail habits.
The study further showed that a third of children had no opinion on whether spam mail was good or bad. Up to 80 per cent of the young people questioned said they were being bombarded with spam messages from lotteries and contests, 62 per cent said they received spam from dating agencies and 51 per cent of children said they received pharmaceutical ads, such as "buy Viagra online".
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