According to America Online, ads mentioning real estate tycoon and star of the NBC show “The Apprentice”, Donald Trump, and those hawking “Penis Patch” body enhancements were among the top 10 junk emails of 2005. Noticeably absent was Porn.

More than half a trillion items of spam were blocked by AOL filters only marginally above 2004 levels while the number of spam reported by their 26 million members is down about 75 percent since 2003.

During 2005, AOL blocked an average of 1.5 billion spam messages per day while 80 percent of all email received at its gateway is deemed junk and blocked.

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