Editing Email spam (section)

===Spamvertised sites===
Many spam emails contain URLs to a website or websites. According to a [[Cyberoam]] report in 2014, there are an average of 54 billion spam messages sent every day. "Pharmaceutical products (Viagra and the like) jumped up 45% from last quarter's analysis, leading this quarter's spam pack. Emails purporting to offer jobs with fast, easy cash come in at number two, accounting for approximately 15% of all spam email. And, rounding off at number three are spam emails about diet products (such as Garcinia gummi-gutta or Garcinia Cambogia), accounting for approximately 1%."<ref name="cyberoam">{{cite press release|title=Q1 2014 Internet Threats Trend Report|publisher=Sophos Cyberoam |url=http://www.cyberoam.com/downloads/ThreatReports/CyberoamCYRENInternetThreats2014April.pdf|access-date=2015-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224144803/http://www.cyberoam.com/downloads/ThreatReports/CyberoamCYRENInternetThreats2014April.pdf|archive-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>

{{Main|Phishing}}

Spam is also a medium for [[fraudster]]s to [[scam]] users into entering personal information on fake Web sites using emails forged to look like they are from banks or other organizations, such as [[PayPal]]. This is known as ''[[phishing]]''. Targeted phishing, where known information about the recipient is used to create forged emails, is known as ''spear-phishing''.<ref name="sophos8"/>