The resent Link Spam Statistics survey has proved that China and USA have a unenviable reputation of holding the leading positions in the register of spam distributors. But, European countries have summed up higher percentage of junk e-mail than the United States do with their 19.6 percent. The worldwide unsolicited e-mail is constantly rising and in relation to 2006 it has icreased by 9 percent. The leaders of unsolicited e-mail top with the exception of USA and China are: South Korea with 6.5 percent unsolicited 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 India with 2.5 percent.
As the major defense consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, stated ?Once a mechanism is compromised, it is often used to circulate unsolicited e-mail for a huge amount of campaigns. And we must use the CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam filters to distinguish messages sent by real human from junk e-mail messages.”. She announced that the facility of any individual country is not sufficiently to surmount spam because it is a global problem. Paul Ducking explained development the amount of unsolicited e-mail providers: ?Unsolicited e-mail include many topics from offering different services to selling many kinds of wares.”. He warns that spammers are prepared to use technologies unduly from all over the world in order to send junk e-mail. ?The map indicats activity almost everywhere people live.” he said, ?Africa may not yet be very equipped, but it's sure wired enough to be suitable for the spam providers.”. Protectwebform realized its own survey in the realm of spam. These results differs from Sopho's research, but they are very necessary to observe. Over many months they anatomized unsolicited e-mail messages, that were entered in e-mail boxes, specially created by their company. Some prominent unsolicited e-mail topics and spam distributors were inserted into the top registers. Concerning states-spam e-mail-distributors, the leading position is held by USA, having 38 percent of general quantity of junk e-mail messages. Following, having a big lag, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. From European countries only Spain - 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy - 1.7 percent came upon the top. Spam-messages circulation into topics was completed in the following way. Incoming spam messages were divided by their themes to some directories so that later the top of them could be announced.
The leading position is held by ?Drug and Medications” topic with 24.7 percent, the second position - by ?Finance” with 16.6 percent. Other often occurring topics are ?Mobile Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Porn” - 5.6 percent and ?Gambling” - 4.2 percent.
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