Report: 80 percent of emails out to manipulate

Four out of five inbound emails are designed to deceive the recipient, according to a new report studying the scope of abusive online messages. The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group's (MAAWG) Email Metric Report, which analyzed data from more than 127 million mailboxes during last year's fourth quarter, found that more than 142 billion emails either were tagged or blocked before they reached the end user. Another 61.3 billion emails were the victims of dropped connections, the study showed. Nearly 37 billion emails were unaltered before reaching their destination.