study finds: most SPAM mails originate in the USA

[Kellanved]

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While China is hosting the most spammer websites, the United States continues to be the point of origin for the dissemination of spam, sending 60.5% of spam. The fact that 71% of spammers websites are hosted in China and 60.5% of the global spam is sent from the United States demonstrates that spam is a global problem and that spam is being sent from one country while another country is used as a hosted website to 'close the loop' of the spam transaction.

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Commtouch reports that the top 10 countries in global distribution of spam websites in the month of April are:

China- 71%
U.S. - 22%
Brazil - 2.3%
South Korea - 1.8%
Russian Federation -1.5%
Canada - 0.6%
Pakistan - 0.24%
U.K. - 0.07%
Romania - 0.03%
Germany - 0.03%
France - 0.06%

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In regard to the global origin of spam in the month of April, Commtouch identified spam being sent from Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in 155 countries, with Hong Kong (separately from China) breaking in to the top 10 list of countries that send the most volume of spam email:

U.S. - 60.5%
China - 6.2%
South Korea - 4.9%
Canada - 4.3%
Brazil - 2.9%
France - 2%
Hong Kong - 1.7%
Spain 1.7%
Japan 1.2%
Netherlands - 1.2%
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http://www.commtouch.com/news/english/2004/pr_040503.shtml

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I'd love to know exactly who

gets these spam messages and not only actually visits these sites, but makes a purchase. Can we start "dumb camps" to herd these people into them in order to prevent them from hurting themselves and society as a whole?