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Quote:The US has yet again topped a list of spam producing countries. One in four (26.4 per cent) of the spam messages intercepted by security firm Sophos's global network of spam traps between April - September, 2005 came from the USA. South Korea, second in the chart, accounted for a further 19.8 per cent of junk messages, with third place China accounting for 15.7 per cent of spam email

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/12/...pam_chart/

I'm surprised Australia isn't there as I get a lot from Australia (as I find when I double check the sender's IP address).  Maybe I'm the only one getting all their spam 

Very interesting list.

And I thought SPAM was just Pork Shoulders and Ham.

Germany and Romania didn't make the top 10?

U.S. and China are the worst.  mers

Another quarter, another reranking of the top SPAM sending nations.  The US is still the top spam sending country, but 4 Asian countries (China/Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) now account for nearly 50% of all spam sent.

Quote:The United States is still the top spam-relaying country, but Asia could soon dethrone it as the spam king, a new study says. Sophos' latest "Dirty Dozen" report on the top 12 spam-relaying countries during the first quarter of 2006 concludes that the United States is still sending more spam than any other nation.

"Although we're seeing a worldwide increase in zombies, hijacked PCs infected by malware, Americans have vigilantly increased protection on their computers from malicious hackers resulting in a significant decrease in spam coming from the United States," said Ron O'Brien, senior security analyst at Sophos...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/OObyb6LV...nges.xhtml