Link Spam Statistics
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The resent Link Spam Statistics survey has proved that China and USA have a unenviable reputation of holding the outstanding positions in the list of spam distributors. But, European countries have summed up higher percentage of spam than the United States do having their 19.6 percent. You can see the top positions of the roll of spam providers: South Korea 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 finally India with 2.5 percent, if you confront those showings with the results of 2006 year, you should find out the worldwide 9 percent increase of unsolicited e-mail.
As the senior safety consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, declared “One day a mechanism is compromised, it is often used to distribute junk e-mail for a multiplicity of campaigns. And we should use the CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam procedures to distinguish messages whish has been sent by real users from unsolicited e-mail messages.”. She has acknowledged that states need working together to make a global effort to overcome junk e-mail. Paul Ducklin, the chief of technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, comments on the widespread development of unsolicited e-mail: “In a matter of seconds we can see compromised machines send out junk e-mail on a lot of different subjects from stock scams to diet remedy.”. The unsolicited e-mail business doesn’t require lots of funds to keep it, so illegal spam organizations may be created in any location and it’s been taking place hourly. Not only in the countries with great amount of people and good level of technologies evolution like Africa. Protectwebform produced its own research in the field of spam. These findings differs from Sopho’s analysis, but they are very necessary to notice. Having analyzed the e-mail spam massages that had been entered into the specially registered mail boxes and then specialists managed to determine some of their features. Using certain technologies connoisseurs determined senders IP-addresses, that is why, they managed to precisely declare which state the spam e-mail message had been sended from. Concerning states-unsolicited e-mail-providers, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of general amount of spam messages. Following, 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: just Spain – 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy – 1.7 percent came upon the top. Junk e-mail-messages circulation into subjects was performed in the following way. Incoming junk e-mail messages were divided by their subjects to some folders so that in conclusion the catalogue of them could be compiled.
As for the most popular unsolicited e-mail-message subjects, the first place is held by “Drugs and Medications” which has 24.7 percent overall junk e-mail-topics; the second place is held by “Finance” having 16.6 percent. Those are the definitive leaders . Another popular subjects are “Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Sex” – 5.6 percent and “Gambling” – 4.2 percent.
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Methew Petrenko is a scientist in Internet marketing and author of many articles on Anti-Spam. For more data see our site. Methew Petrenko is a successful writer on the subjects of Anti-Spam for various Internet marketing journals. For more data see our site.
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