E-mail may be getting phased out by texting. Who wants to plow through 100 emails everyday where 95 are garbage? Plus everyone always has their cell phone, most people are not always on their computer.
About the same as junk mail.
In the last two months my spam mailbox has exploded with mail. From like 40 a day to 120 a day.
Those things are brutal. OCR technology can't touch them, and they bypass all content checking. The only way I've been able to stop them is using digital signatures from the openprotect.org database with Clam Antivirus(doing this makes my Linux spam filter recognize the attachments as a virus and handles them as such). Even that is a rather crude method, but it's all I've found that will stop such spam attachments so far. We haven't seen as many at our site in the last few weeks. When they were at their peak during midsummer we were catching a few thousand .pdf/Excel spam messages a day. Since then there has been a sharp increase in typical spam from botnets. There were 3 days last week where we were rejecting close to 60,000 messages per day.
Here's our stats over the last month: