You Will Get More Spam Emails If Your Email Starts From ‘A’, ‘M’, ‘S’, ‘R’, ‘P’ Instead of ‘Q’, ‘W’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’ Which Gets Less Spam
Well, the title might look weird initially but after some thought you will agree that emails that start with more obvious alphabets should get more spam then those email that begin with less obvious ones.
Dr Richard Clayton, computer scientist in University of Cambridge, analyzed over 500 million junk spam emails to come to the above conclusion. In a nutshell, his study concludes that emails that begin with more obvious alphabets like ‘A’, ‘M’, ‘S’, ‘R’, ‘P’ will get double the spam when compared to emails that begin with alphabets like ‘Q’, ‘W’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’.
One reason pointed by Dr. Clayton was the bruteforce method which spammers use to generate live emails. Like, if a spammer knows that abc@xvz.com is a live email then he will try abc@pqr.com to check if this is also live. Hence it is obvious that spammers will apply this method on more general email as they have higher chances to be available over different domains.
Another reason which I can sight for such variation in email spam is the availability of emails with so called obvious letters. Like, mostly people tend to create emails which start with above mentioned letters instead of the less known letters ‘X’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’. We all know that ‘S’ is the most frequently used letter for name of various humans as compared to ‘Z’. Hence, because their are more live emails that start with obvious letters so they are bound to receive more spam as they will be attacked by spammers more than those emails that start with unobvious letters.

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