Spam Leaders

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Recently Sophos has finished the analysis of the most considerable junk e-mail providers, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. It is easy to comprehend that the survey hasn’t been done only to blame the US for spam circulation, European countries all in all have higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US do. Here is the top positions of the list of spam distributors: South Korea 6.5 percent spam, 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 ultimately India with 2.5 percent, if you compare those showings with the results of 2006 year, we should see the worldwide 9 percent increase of junk e-mail.

As the senior protection consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, claimed “One day a machine is compromised, it is frequently used to circulate unsolicited e-mail for a diversity of campaigns. And we have to use the CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam filters to tell messages whish has been sent by real users from unsolicited e-mail messages.”. She has admitted that states need working together to make an attempt to combat unsolicited e-mail. ”This is no unexpectedness in fact that compromised machines can circulate junk e-mail all over the world” noticed the head of high technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, Paul Ducklin. He lets know beforehand that spammers are prepared to use computers unduly from all over the world in order to send e-mail spam. “The map displays activity almost all over the world.” he said, “Africa may not yet be very well-wired, but it’s no doubt wired enough to be suitable for the spam providers.”. Protectwebform realized its own survey in the field of junk e-mail. Those findings differs from Sopho’s survey, but they are very interesting to observe. The e-mail spam analysis was fulfilled in the next way: a huge amount of tentative e-mail boxes were done and then they observed quantity and nature of entered junk e-mail massages. Using certain technologies connoisseurs defined senders IP-addresses, owing to that fact, they could precisely declare which state the spam e-mail message had been sended from. Concerning countries-spam e-mail-distributors, the top position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of general amount of junk e-mail messages. Next, with a huge lag, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. From European countries just Spain – 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy – 1.7 percent fallen into the catalogue. Junk e-mail-messages circulation into themes was performed in the following way. Derived spam messages were divided by their topics to several groups so that later on the roll of them could be announced.

As for the most popular unsolicited e-mail-message topics, the leading position is occupied by “Drugs and Medications” which covers 24.7 percent overall spam e-mail-phrases; the second place is held by “Finance” with 16.6 percent. Those are the ultimate leaders . Another often occurring themes are “Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Adult” – 5.6 percent and “Gambling” – 4.2 percent.

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

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