What’s in a name? The bard of Avon would have thought twice before asking so, if he were alive in this e-age.

According to a security researcher at University of Cambridge, names are very important when it comes to the question that how often you get spammed.

If your name begins with a common letter such as `A’, the probability of you being the favorite target of spam mails increase manifold.
According to the researcher, Richard Clayton, e-mail addresses that begin with common letters like A, P, M and so forth, receive more spam than address that begin with, for example, Z. This happens when spammers use "Rumplestiltskin" attacks -- where they run through the dictionary to guess at e-mail addresses.

Clayton who studied the logs of Demon Internet -- UK-based ISP -- found that of all the e-mail received by addresses beginning with an A, 50 per cent were spam. For e-mail addresses beginning with Z, on the other hand, only 20 per cent of mail received was spam.

Other popular targets include addresses beginning with M and R. The graph you see before you show the distribution of letters and the percentage of e-mail traffic that is spam.
Traffic data (the date, time, source, destination and size) of incoming email was collected for the eight week period 1 February {27 March 2008. This period included the Easter weekend (with two bank holidays).