Top 10 Countries with the Most Spammers

Spamming; it is something that we always see every day when we open our emails, usually placed on the “Junk” folder, as conveniently detected and relocated by our email service providers. However, how is spamming affecting our lives and our perspective on their marketing strategies? Others may not realize it, but spam has dictated some of the decisions of people when it comes to certain products such as drugs, insurance, law services, and others. Where are these electronic bulk messages coming from? You can find out in the list provided on what countries in the world produces the most spam messages being sent in many forms.

 

 

10. Canada

December 15, 2010, a bill called the C-28 or the “Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act” has been passed in order to lessen and even stop the spreading of spam and other unsolicited mail coming from, or operating in the country. Sad enough, it looks like the law is not enough to stop spammers, probably from other countries, in targeting Canadian ISPs and carrying their shady plot. As of November 15, 2011, there are 230 live spam issues in the country.

9. Turkey

Talking about Spam and Turkey may bring about a delicious treat for hungry individuals; however, it is not as tasty when talking about the country’s reputation in sending junk emails. With a total population of about 72 million where more than 36% of its people have access to the internet, Turkey carries about 4.4% of the world’s spam emails and other junk market, tying with Canada when it comes to current spam cases.

8. France

France has been known as a place where battles have been fought, in both love and war. When the country declared war against spam in 2007, the French government has used funds in developing a project called Signal Spam, where it is tied up with Outlook and Thunderbird email clients, and automatically sending spam data into a central database for reporting and blocking. Despite the said efforts though, France has 233 known spam issues.

7. Japan

Spam burgers for women may be famous in Japan, but the country is not showing any signs of weighing down, particularly with its people sending spam messages to many emails all over the world. With the most recent spam theme inspired from the recent earthquake in Sendai, the Land of the Rising Sun has been noted to have existing spam issues of over 244.

6. Brazil

Known to be the spam king back in 2010, Brazil has now ranked lower, most probably because of the increased efforts in lessening cyber crime from the side of the government. Nevertheless, the country is still involved with anomalous spamming activities where 262 of such cases are currently noted.

5. Germany

With a country that has a population of 82 million where more than 63% of which have access to the internet, Germany has been listed as one of the worst spamming countries in the world. Aside from using spam to push government propaganda, other known cases include lotteries and advanced payments, including 277 additional issues.

4. United Kingdom

Known to be as one of the international superpowers, United Kingdom is no exception being noted as spam country because of the nation’s high literacy rate, including the penetration rate of broadband users in various nations. Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Great Britain combined, has noted live spam issues of 490 cases such as pyramids scam, dating Russian women, and even sweepstake claims.

3. Russian Federation

Those who have emails cannot disregard the Russian Federation as being one of the worst spamming countries the world has ever known. As a matter of fact, aside from having a high live spam case count of 661, the nation also houses the most notorious of spamming gangs such as Peter Severa, Leo Kuvayev, and Ruslan Ibragimov of send-safe.com.

2. China

With such a developing country like China, being in the loop of the internet world can be for both good and bad. Known to be as the world’s most populous nation, China also ranks as second when it comes to live spam cases, even being counted 1131. Vincent Chan, who lives in Hong Kong, sends pharmacy spam in your emails.

1. United States

It is no surprise that a progressive nation like the United States, being home to the biggest businesses all over the globe, has 2507 live spam cases. Despite having a population of only 304 million against the 1.3 billion from China, the US sends 19.8% of spam known everywhere.