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By mathewpetrenko
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Recently Sophos has completed the research of the most considerable unsolicited e-mail distributors, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. Six of the top entries are from European states which include a summed up higher percentage of spam than the US that currently accounts for 19.6 percent of junk e-mail all over the world. You can find the leading points of the roll of spammers: South Korea 6.5 percent spam, 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, if we confront those showings with the outcomes of 2006 year, we should see the worldwide 9 percent increment of unsolicited e-mail.

The top-ranked expert 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 filters which can determine unsolicited e-mail. She declared that the facility of any individual state is not enough to subdue junk e-mail because it is a global problem. Paul Ducking gave his view on development the quantity of spam distributors: “Unsolicited e-mail include a lot of themes from suggesting different services to selling some wares.”. He lets know beforehand that unduly using of computer systems expands and may be fulfilled from almost any location all over the world, even Africa, where computer systems are not very well spread, can be used as a base of spam. Protectwebform carried out its own research in the field of junk e-mail. These results differs from Sopho’s research, but they are very interesting to know. Analyzing the unsolicited e-mail massages which had been entered in the specially made mail boxes and then specialists managed to define some of their characteristics. Using reliable technologies specialists determined senders IP-addresses, owing to that fact, they could exactly declare which state the spam message had come from. Concerning states-unsolicited e-mail-distributors, the top position is held by USA, with 38 percent of general quantity of junk e-mail messages. Next, with a huge gap, 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 fallen into the catalogue. Junk e-mail-messages distribution into topics was implemented by the following method. Incoming spam messages were classified by their topics to several directories so that later the roll 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 often occurring themes are “Cell Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Adult” – 5.6 percent and “Online casinos” – 4.2 percent.

About the Author

Methew Petrenko is a scientist in Internet marketing and writer of many articles on Anti-Spam. For more data see our site. Methew Petrenko is a contributing author on the subjects of Link Spam Statistics for several Internet marketing journals. For more data come to our site.

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