Spam Leaders

The resent Link Spam Statistics survey has shown that China and USA have a tarnished reputation of holding the leading positions in the register of spammers. It is not difficult to see that the survey hasn’t been done only to rebuke the US for junk e-mail distribution, European countries in total have higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US do. When corresponded to 2006, this quarter displayed a worldwide 9 percent increase of unsolicited e-mail. South Korea came in third place on the list with 6.5 percent junk e-mail, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and finally India with 2.5 percent.

One of the leading experts of Sophos states that people don’t use computers properly sending out spam. But the easiest way go through it is using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam filters which can detect spam. She also added that to combat the spam countries should be coherent. Paul Ducking illuminated increase the number of junk e-mail distributors: “Unsolicited e-mail include many topics from suggesting various services to selling many sorts of goods.”. He said that illegally using of computer systems expands and can be realized from literally any location worldwide, even Africa, where computer technologies are not as well spread as in USA, can be used as a foundation of spam. Protectwebform carried out its own research in the realm of unsolicited e-mail. Those results differs from Sopho’s analysis, but they are very necessary to notice. During several months they analyzed e-mail spam messages, which have been received in forms, specially created by their company. Using certain technologies specialists determined senders IP-addresses, owing to that fact, they could exactly declare which state the unsolicited e-mail message had been sended from. Regarding states-spam-providers, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of overall amount of spam messages. Following, having a great gap, there is China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. The European countries are: just Spain – 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy – 1.7 percent fallen into the list. Unsolicited e-mail-messages promotion into themes was completed in the following way. They classified unsolicited e-mail-phrases, distributing them between sections, and then they classified gained folder names, thus defigning general themes.

As for the most popular junk e-mail-message subjects, the leading position is held by “Drugs and Medications” which has 24.7 percent overall junk e-mail-themes; the silver medalist is “Finance” with 16.6 percent. Those are the ultimate top leaders . Other often occurring subjects are “Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Porn” – 5.6 percent and “Gambling Institutions” – 4.2 percent.

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Methew Petrenko is a scientist in Internet marketing and author of many articles on Capthca. For more information come to our site. Methew Petrenko is a contributing writer on the subjects of Link Spam Statistics for various Internet marketing magazines. For more information visit our site.