USA is the Top Spam Offender Nation in Q2
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Spam, USA, China, Sohpos | Themes: The Internet, Software, Business
Currently the United States is the biggest spam-contributing nation, however Asia still ranks #1 as the largest continent distributing spam worldwide.
A report from IT security solutions provider Sohpos reveals that the United States currently reigns as #1 on the company's top twelve list of spam-relaying countries. In the second quarter of 2009, the U.S. was responsible for 15.6-percent, followed closely by Brazil's 11.1-percent. Turkey, third on the list, only comprised 5.2-percent of the world's spam, with India taking up another 5-percent.
Russia, the former spam "super-power," continues to fall down the ranks according to the report. "Russia currently resides at ninth position in the chart, relaying a mere 3.2-percent of spam messages," Sophos said. "This represents a significant reduction compared to the same time last year when the country came second only to the United States and was responsible for relaying 7.5-percent of all spam emails."
Sohpos paints a different picture when observing sources of spam on a continent level. During the April to June quarter, Asia proved to be the dominant spam distributor, providing 31.7-percent. Europe came in second, comprising 27.1-percent while South America followed with 19.4-percent. North America was the fourth largest culprit on the list, cranking out 18.8-percent of the world's spam.
"Clearly the problem isn't going away, as is illustrated by the large number of sprawling spam campaigns we see on a daily basis," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "Although it may seem encouraging to see reductions in the volume of spam that certain countries are contributing, authorities, ISPs and home users across the world need to be doing more to crack down on the spam problem."
Anyone suddenly hungry for some fake meat?
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If there's a buck to be made... society will always be able to regurgitate some waste of air ready to take advantage.
For my domain: 41 users:
Top 25 Countries from SPAM messages PAST MONTH
UNITED STATES 4654 18.02%
BRAZIL 3300 12.78%
INDIA 1401 5.43%
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1374 5.32%
TURKEY 1244 4.82%
REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1025 3.97%
UNKNOWN 972 3.76%
COLOMBIA 778 3.01%
POLAND 768 2.97%
CHINA 740 2.87%
SPAIN 717 2.78%
VIET NAM 657 2.54%
ARGENTINA 645 2.5%
ITALY 644 2.49%
CHILE 524 2.03%
UKRAINE 465 1.8%
ROMANIA 430 1.67%
GERMANY 377 1.46%
SAUDI ARABIA 352 1.36%
NETHERLANDS 313 1.21%
UNITED KINGDOM 311 1.2%
MEXICO 301 1.17%
FRANCE 271 1.05%
THAILAND 214 0.83%
PAKISTAN 183 0.71%
If there's a buck to be made... society will always be able to regurgitate some waste of air ready to take advantage.
I'm confused on where this buck is being made. 95% of the spam I receive isn't even advertising anything, its just garbage. That's the spam I hate the most. Most spam just seems to be about getting email addresses to sell to other people trying to send their own spam. Most spam would probably stop if disreputable individuals stopped paying other disreputable individuals for worthless email lists.
Seriously, who clicks on a link for V1@g-ara or goes to www.fr33mon3y whoopsie I forgot the .com? We should license internet users like we license drivers. At least we can be assured these people got a basic lesson in how to use the internet. I honestly think most people who do click on spam don't even understand that anyone can send them emails and that not all of them are legitimate or safe.
Holy crap, Tom's Guide automatically hyperlinked my www example, please DON'T click on that, you don't know where your browser might take you.
Holy crap, Tom's Guide automatically hyperlinked my www example, please DON'T click on that, you don't know where your browser might take you.
Nah click on it...The site is one that gives you free money...Once you send $3,000 to an uncle in Nigeria as a holding deposit for the $1m they will send you back
But I'd love to live in #7 on that list "UNKNOWN 972 3.76%" seems like a wonderful place to live in
i personally think in this day and age anything that cause an annoyance in society or is a crime of any nature should be punishable by death.... plain and simple...this planet is running low on resources, and we need to thin out the gene pool to make way for man to eveolve properly.... im tired of hearing how a persons father is also his uncle...
Hmmm, most of the spam messages I get are from domains registered by individuals in the US or Europe, but the sites are hosted in China or Korea. The mail itself is often relayed through various cloud services.
And yeah, I don't even remember the last time I ever received an actual advertisement. Every spam message I get either has a virus attached, or it links to phishing websites.
Spam = Annoying,and drives the consumer away from the products!
Can-Spam act sure did a lot of good, eh...
Don't worry dude, I clicked on it and my comp still runs great!
I just ignore spam, easy enough.
Though the occasional one I do read is usually a good laugh. (And people fall for this stuff?)
And no, I want real meat... I got a smoked beef rib to go eat thank you.
Don't worry dude, I clicked on it and my comp still runs great!
I got routed to my ISP's search engine. Darn, I guess I wouldn't pass the internet surfing test.
Spam is a minor nuisance but what is a far worse nuisance are telemarketers especially the telemarketing scammers with their automated calls.
So, that's where most of my spam comes from. Good to know.
BTW, United States is not a "nation"...
If everyone fought spam, instead of ignoring it or filtering it out, there would be less of it. Here is an easy way to fight it - http://www.spamcop.net/
Just be sure to use a throw-away e-mail address if you use this service.
Wow that is terrible news! We have to inform ourselves against those attacks! I found here on MalwareCity a great site with lots of info about those threats!
You should check this out!
We may not lead in sports anymore... We may not lead in technology anymore... We may no longer be the richest... We may persecute our smart people with our "OMG U R a nerd" culture... But by golly, we still know how to spam...
USA: more than 6 times spam than China......
USA is also the biggeste polluter on the planet.
It is a GREAT nation.
What about the Nigerian king that keeps wanting me to send him money so I can inherit millions? :|