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Article Summary: Recently Sophos has completed the research of the most substantial junk e-mail providers, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. However, European countries have united higher percentage of junk e-mail than the United States do having their 19.6 percent.

In 2007 Sophos released its quarterly register of worldwide Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 that finds out that China and the USA are the utmost offenders when it comes to commonwealths sending spam. It is not difficult to comprehend that the survey hasn’t been done only to rebuke the US for spam distribution, European countries in sum have higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US do. When compared to 2006, the second quarter saw a worldwide 9 percent increment of junk e-mail. South Korea came in third place on the top 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 conclusively India with 2.5 percent.

According to Carole Theriault, senior defense consultant of Sophos, people stydied the mechanisms to send round junk e-mail worldwide and now there are lots of such mechanisms, but using CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam methods addressee can avoid receiving the junk e-mail. She has acknowledged that countries need working in conjunction to attempt to overcome junk e-mail. Paul Ducking gave his view on increase the quantity of junk e-mail providers: “Spam messages include many themes from proposing various services to selling many kinds of goods.”. The spam business doesn’t require lots of investment to start it, so illicit junk e-mail firms may be organized almost everywhere and it’s been taking place hourly. Not only in the countries with great amount of people and good level of computer systems development like Africa. Protectwebform produced its own research in the field of junk e-mail. Those findings differs from Sopho’s research, but they are very necessary to observe. Over many months they anatomized junk e-mail messages, which were entered in forms, specially provided by their company. Some prominent junk e-mail subjects and spam distributors were entered into the top rolls. Regarding states-unsolicited e-mail-providers, the top position is taken by USA, with 38 percent of general quantity of spam messages. Next, with a big lag, there is China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. The European countries are: only Spain – 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy – 1.7 percent got into the list. Unsolicited e-mail-messages promotion into topics was completed in the following way. Incoming unsolicited e-mail messages were divided by their topics to several folders so that later the top of them was compiled.

The first place is occupied by “Drug and Medications” subject with 24.7 percent, the second - by “Finance” with 16.6 percent. Other popular topics are “Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Porn” – 5.6 percent and “Gambling Institutions” – 4.2 percent.

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Mathew Petrenko
Methew Petrenko is a scientist in Internet marketing and writer of many articles on Capthca. For more data see our site. Methew Petrenko is a permanent author on the subjects of Link Spam Statistics for several Internet marketing magazines. For more data browse our site.