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====== Spam - Cost of Spam ======

Spam Costs You More Than Just Money.

  * Added Bandwidth and Storage Expenses.
  * Management Costs and Lost Productivity.
  * Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs.
  * Safety and Disaster Recovery Expenses.
  * Environmental Impact.

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===== Added Bandwidth and Storage Expenses =====

Shelling out for more of each—because individual file sizes keep growing.

Spending more money to store untold gigabytes of worthless messages not going to be read.

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===== Management Costs and Lost Productivity =====

With the uptick in email being sent, trying to keep up with the volume in inboxes is difficult and time consuming.

Even if only a few seconds is spent to get rid of each unopened spam message, it adds up to minutes a day, hours a month, and days a year, all dedicated to hitting that **delete** button.

Spam creates an unnecessary expense.

Lost time is lost revenue.

It is suggested that 15 seconds on average is used to process each spam email.

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===== Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs =====

It is expensive maintaining a server; and spam is increasing this spend.

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===== Safety and Disaster Recovery Expenses =====

Phishing emails are getting more dangerous all the time as hackers and spammers come up with new ways to get around anti-spam defenses.

Some people may be savvy enough to avoid falling for phishing tricks, but just one errant click could set off a chain of events that leads to a data breach.  Everyone makes mistakes now and then, unfortunately.

If these spam emails were not received, then the mailbox would be cleaner with less risk of being caught out.

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===== Environmental Impact =====

Not just extra energy costs to the receiver of these emails, but there is also a recognized environmental impact to spam, marketing and advertisements.

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===== References =====

https://www.ezcomputersolutions.com/true-cost-of-spam-for-companies/

https://www.cudamail.com/spam-cost-calculator/

https://vialect.com/cost-of-internal-email-spam/