World Spam

In 2007 Sophos released its monthly roll of worldwide Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the utmost offenders when it comes to states spreading unsolicited e-mail. It is not difficult to understand that the survey hasn't been done only to rebuke the US for junk e-mail distribution, European countries in sum have higher percentage of spam than the US do. When compared to 2006, this quarter saw a worldwide 9 percent increment of unsolicited e-mail. South Korea came in third position on the top having 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.

According to Carole Theriault, major security consultant of Sophos, people learned the mechanisms to distribute unsolicited e-mail worldwide and at present there is a huge amount of such mechanisms, but using CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam methods user can avoid getting the spam. She declared that the facility of any single state is not sufficiently to subdue junk e-mail because it is a global problem. Paul Ducking explained upgrowth the quantity of junk e-mail distributors: