Junk mail host nations named and shamed: Axis of Spam

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Five countries are hosting the overwhelming majority - a staggering 99.68 per cent - of spammer websites, according to a study out yesterday.

Most spam that arrives in email boxes contains a URL to a website within an email, to allow users to buy spamvertised products online. While 49 countries around the world are hosting spammer websites, unethical hosting firms overwhelmingly operate from just a few global hotspots. Anti-spam vendors Commtouch reckons 73.58 per cent of the websites referenced within spam sent last month were hosted in China, a 4.5 per cent decrease from May. South Korea (10.91 per cent), the United States (9.47 per cent), the Russian Federation (3.5 per cent) and Brazil (2.23 per cent) made up the remainder of the "Axis of Spam".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/01/commtouch_spam_survey/

Abaddon · Joined: Jun 19, 2004 Posts: 105

Amazing study! Shocked

Great topic, by the way. thumb up

aquanaut · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

I have this new net account since 4 months and i'm spam free so far. even with the hotmail address