Which celebrity is the 'worst spammer'? :: SearchSecurity.com.au

Read More Here: "Barack Obama, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears might be three of the world's most visible people, but when it comes to celebrity spam circulating the Internet, the trio has nothing on Angelina Jolie. The mother of six inspired an average 2.28% of the total daily email volume on the planet in July, the bulk of it using her name and the word naked in the subject line, according to the research labs at Secure Computing, a provider of enterprise gateway security (The Angelina Jolie campaign contains a URL linked to an executable binary, mostly seen as msvideoc.exe hosted at multiple domains, the report explains.)

Indeed, Jolie-inspired spam attacks far outstrip those generated by other top celebrities. According to data culled by Secure Computing labs, the actress's name is used fivefold more times (45%) in spam campaigns than Barack Obama's (9%), the distant second-place finisher followed closely by Hilton (7%), then Spears (about 4%).

The celebrity stats are, however, a sidelight in Secure Computing's Internet Threat Report published in mid-August, which provided a sober look at the top network traffic threats of second-quarter 2008 and predictions for the remainder of the year."