Spam Statistics
In 2007 Sophos published its quarterly register of global Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the utmost lawbreakers when it comes to commonwealths spreading spam. Six of the head entries are from European countries which include a summed up higher percentage of junk e-mail than the US which currently accounts for 19.6 percent of spam worldwide. The worldwide unsolicited e-mail is now increasing and in relation to 2006 it has icreased by 9 percent. The leaders of unsolicited e-mail roll with the exception of USA and China are: South Korea with 6.5 percent unsolicited 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 India with 2.5 percent.
One of the leading experts of Sophos claims that people don't use computers properly distributing spam. But the easiest way to overcome it is using CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam filters that can determine unsolicited e-mail. She also that that to strive against the unsolicited e-mail states should be concerned. Paul Ducking illuminated development the amount of spam distributors: ?Spam messages include a huge amount of topics from proposing various services to selling many sorts of produces.”. The junk e-mail business doesn't require a lot of funds to hold support it, so unlawful unsolicited e-mail firms may be created almost everywhere and it's been occurring hourly. Not only in the countries with dense population and high level of technologies development like Africa. Protectwebform fulfilled its own research in the realm of junk e-mail. These findings differs from Sopho's analysis, but they are very necessary to know. The junk e-mail analysis was fulfilled by the next method: lots of experimental e-mail boxes were done and then they studied quantity and origins of incoming spam e-mail massages. In a result of examination of these junk e-mail messages and sender IP-addresses you can see the leaders of unsolicited e-mail themes and spam providers. Regarding states-junk e-mail-providers, the top position is held by USA, with 38 percent of overall quantity of junk e-mail messages. Following, with a great gap, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. From European countries just Spain - 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy - 1.7 percent came upon the roll. Spam-messages promotion into themes was accomplished in the following way. The specialists classified unsolicited e-mail-phrases, distributing them into folders, and then they classified derived folder names, thus assigning most common themes.
As for the most general spam-message themes, the first place is occupied by ?Drugs and Medications” which has 24.7 percent of all unsolicited e-mail-topics; the silver medalist is ?Finance” having 16.6 percent. Those are the definitive leaders . Another popular themes are ?Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Sex” - 5.6 percent and ?Gambling Institutions” - 4.2 percent.
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