US Tops List of Top 10 spam producing countries

[mandy]

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/

[Nat]

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.

[xppman]

And I thought SPAM was just Pork Shoulders and Ham.

[rose]

Germany and Romania didn't make the top 10?

[jezebel]

U.S. and China are the worst.  mers

[mandy]

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.

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