World Spam
In 2007 Sophos published its quarterly roll of worldwide Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the top wrongdoers when it comes to commonwealths spreading junk e-mail. Six of the top entries are from European states which comprise a combined higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US that currently accounts for 19.6 percent of junk e-mail worldwide. Here is the top points of the catalogue 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 outcomes with the results of 2006 year, you will find out the worldwide 9 percent increment of junk e-mail.
As the major security consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, claimed ?Once a machine is compromised, it is commonly used to distribute unsolicited e-mail for a diversity of campaigns. And we have to use the CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam methods to distinguish messages sent by real people from unsolicited e-mail messages.”. She also that that to overcome the spam countries ought to be coordinated. Paul Ducking gave his view on increase the number of spam providers: ?Spam includes a lot of subjects from proposing different services to selling many kinds of goods.”. He warns that spammers are got ready to use computers unduly from any location in order to send unsolicited e-mail. ?The map shows activity nearly all over the world.” he annotated, ?Africa may not yet be very equipped, but it's certainly wired enough to be suitable for the spammers.”. Protectwebform fulfilled its own survey in the realm of unsolicited e-mail. These results differs from Sopho's survey, but they are very interesting to observe. The spam test was fulfilled in the next way: lots of experimental e-mail boxes were created and then they analyzed quantity and nature of incoming spam e-mail massages. Using reliable technologies specialists determined senders IP-addresses, that is why, they managed to exactly say which state the unsolicited e-mail message had come from. Regarding countries-spam e-mail-distributors, the top position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of overall amount of spam messages. Next, having a big gap, 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 came upon the roll. Junk e-mail-messages circulation into subjects was implemented by the following method. Derived unsolicited e-mail messages were divided by their subjects to several folders so that later the catalogue of them could be compiled.
As for the most general spam-message subjects, the first place is occupied by ?Drugs and Medications” which has 24.7 percent of all unsolicited e-mail-topics; the silver medalist is ?Finance” with 16.6 percent. Those are the definitive top leaders . Other often occurring topics are ?Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Porn” - 5.6 percent and ?Online casinos” - 4.2 percent.
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