USA is the Top Spamming Country in the World

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USA is the Top Spamming Country in the World
by Jane McEntegart, April 29, 2010

" Spam sucks and no matter what kind of filters we set up or how sensitive our junk settings are, spam will find a way to worm into our inboxes. So which country is responsible for the most spam? Oh, that'd be us.

In a recent study by IT security firm, Sophos, it emerged that America is responsible for 13.1 percent of spam. India came in second, accounting for 7.3 percent and Brazil took the bronze with 6.8 percent.

Sophos points out that China – often blamed for cybercrime by other countries – has disappeared from the "dirty dozen," coming in at 15th place with responsibility for relaying just 1.9% of the world’s spam.

"All eyes aren’t so much on which countries are on the list, but the one which isn’t," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "China has earned itself a bad reputation in many countries’ eyes for being the launch pad of targeted attacks against foreign companies and government networks, but at least in the last 12 months they have demonstrated that the proportion of spam relayed by their computers has steadily declined."

The top 12 countries for spam are listed below.

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:source: Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Spa...ity,10308.html

India is second with only 7% internet penetration!!
Probably be on top in two years

How can this be? Most of the spam emails I get are from Ghana or some other part of Africa, not from the U.S.

USA, USA, USA

We lost Olympic Gold in hockey, but this will do for now :P

USA, USA, USA

BTW, Ghana is into get rich schemes, the U.S. has more penis enlargement and sex spammers....

interesting news but i dont believe in these news because some of the other big spamming countries r not in the list
i have read somewhere that romania is a big spamming country but here that is last in the list

Where do the Nigerians stand?

its like someone put my thoughts in numbers

Well, just another reason to be thankful to gmail, only if I didn't had so many idiot friends who forward me so many stupid stuff.

omg ! :)

OMG ! :lol: