The Storm botnet is sharing the love this week with a new spam run aimed at taking the romance out of Valentine’s Day.

Security firm MessageLabs said that Valentine’s Day spam currently accounts for almost two per cent of all spam sent globally on a daily basis.The vast majority of these messages contain a header like ‘Looking for that perfect Valentine’s Day gift?’ or ‘Make Valentine’s Day Night a memorable one’.

Although Valentine’s Day is proving to be another opportunity for spammers to capitalise on their victims, overall spam levels have dropped marginally from their December high to account for 96.8 per cent of all email scanned during January by SoftScan.

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