Services › Anti-Spam › Anti-Spam Statistics: August 2013
The Electronic Messaging Compliance Unit provides statistical information about spam complaints, reported scams and enforcement action.
During the month of August, 623 complaints were received in total.
| Total number of spam reported this month (August) | 86 |
61 | |
| SMS (short message service i.e. text message) | 25 |
| Fax | 0 |
| Origin of spam | Number received |
| New Zealand | 41 |
| Overseas | 45 |
| Complaint reason | Number received |
| I did not subscribe to this | 54 |
| The message did not contain an unsubscribe facility | 22 |
| Contains sexual content | 3 |
| I have previously unsubscribed and message continues to be sent | 25 |
| Other reasons | 560 |
| Total number of scams reported this month (August) | 537 |
327 | |
| SMS (short message service i.e. text message) | 171 |
| Phone (verbal) | 22 |
| Fax | 0 |
| Online scams (from trading or social networking websites) | 6 |
| Postal (letters) | 11 |
| Total number of scams reported in 2013 (add the monthly number from the box above to these yearly totals) | 4306 (add the monthly number from the box above to these yearly totals |
2341 | |
| SMS (short message service i.e. text message) | 1702 |
| Phone (verbal) | 142 |
| Fax | 3 |
| Online scams (from trading or social networking websites) | 49 |
| Postal (letters) | 69 |
Year | Number of formal warnings issued |
2013 | 25 |
2012 | 36 |
2011 | 106 |
2010 | 152 |
2009 | 19 |
Year | Number of infringement notices issued |
2013 | 4 |
2012 | 4 |
2011 | 3 |
2010 | 15 |
