Originally Posted by RawAlex

For the most part, spam mail these days is almost entirely dominated by stock pump and dump scams (using infected PCs for mailing, almost all of the scams coming from eastern block countries), "Canadian Pharmacy" scams, phishing, and viruses. This year has been entirely light for things like christmas products or even porn spam (one idiot keeps it up daily... doorknob).

More and more people are turning email off entirely or using whitelist software such as spamarrest or similar to really limit the spam they even seen, which is in turn making spamming less and less profitable.

When the profit goes away, the scammers move on to other stuff, like installing Zango or buying traffic from them.