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Link Spam Statistics

February 1st, 2008, 2:23 pm @ Uncategorized

The regular Link Spam Statistics inspection has proved that China and USA have a tainted reputation of holding the leading positions in the list of spammers. Six of the head entries are from European countries that include a combined higher percentage of junk e-mail than the US which today accounts for 19.6 percent of unsolicited e-mail worldwide. You can see the top points of the roll of spam distributors: South Korea 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 conclusively India with 2.5 percent, if we confront those showings with the outcomes of 2006 year, you should see the worldwide 9 percent increase of spam.

According to Carole Theriault, major defense consultant of Sophos, people instructed the mechanisms to circulate spam worldwide and presently there is a huge amount of that sorts of mechanisms, but using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam filters recipient can avoid getting the spam. She has acknowledged that states need working together to make a global effort to combat spam. Paul Ducking illuminated increase the number of junk e-mail distributors: