Spam Leaders
In 2007 Sophos published its monthly top of global Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the top offenders when it comes to states spreading junk e-mail. It is easy to realize that the inspection hasn't been done just to blame the US for spam distribution, European countries in sum have higher percentage of junk e-mail than the US do. The worldwide unsolicited e-mail is constantly increasing and in respect of 2006 it has icreased by 9 percent. The leaders of junk e-mail roll with the exception of USA and China are: South Korea 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 India with 2.5 percent.
One of the leading experts of Sophos states that people don't make the most efficient use of computers circulating junk e-mail. But the easiest way to overcome it is using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam procedures that can determine unsolicited e-mail. She declared that the facility of any individual state is not sufficiently to overpass junk e-mail because it is a worldwide problem. “That is no unexpectedness in fact that compromised computers can send round messages all over the world” noticed the head of high technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, Paul Ducklin. The unsolicited e-mail business doesn't require lots of funds to begin it, so illegal junk e-mail organizations can be created in any location and it's been taking place hourly. Not only in the states with dense population and high level of technologies evolution like Africa. Protectwebform fulfilled its own research in the field of e-mail spam. Those conclusions differs from Sopho's research, but they are very interesting to notice. The unsolicited e-mail analysis was fulfilled by the next method: a huge amount of tentative e-mail boxes were done and then they analyzed amount and nature of entered junk e-mail massages. Some conspicuous e-mail spam subjects and spam providers were inserted into the top lists. Regarding states-spam e-mail-distributors, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of general quantity of junk e-mail messages. Following, having a big gap, there is 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 got into the catalogue. Junk e-mail-messages distribution into subjects was accomplished by the following method. Incoming spam e-mail messages were classified by their topics to some groups so that in conclusion the top of them was created.
As for the most general spam e-mail-message topics, the leading position is held by