Security: U.S. Tops Spammers List

But legal and legislative measures to stop unsolicited email seem to be having impact.
By Priya Ganapati
October 12, 2005

Despite legislative and legal pressure, the United States remains the world’s worst offender when it comes to the origin of spam, though South Korea and China are fast catching up, a software security company said Wednesday.

To identify the top 12 countries where span originates, London-based enterprise security software company Sophos looked at spam messages received in its network of spam traps.

The U.S. was responsible for 26.5 percent of the all spam trapped in Sophos’ networks between April and September 2005.

Still, there is some good news: this is significantly lower than the 41.5 percent chalked up during the same period last year.

South Korea ranked No. 2 on the list with a share of 19.73 percent of all spam. Meanwhile, China ranked No. 3 with 15.7 percent. But the Middle Kingdom nearly doubled its share in the spamming market.

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