"Dirty Dozen" Spam Producing Countries

On Monday, an IT security company called Sophos released its most recent report about the top 12 spam producing countries for the 3rd quarter of 2006.

The countries, in decreasing order of spam badness, are the United States, China, France, South Korea, Spain, Poland, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Israel and Japan.

The report also outlines some of the trends and techniques used by spammers.

Earlier Library Boy posts on spam include:

• Canada Releases Spam Report (May 19, 2005)
• Follow-Up to Government Anti-Spam Task Force Report (May 23, 2005)
• Complete Guide to E-mail (October 16, 2005)
• New Website on Internet Scams and Fraud (November 23, 2005)
• Federal Trade Commission (U.S.) Releases Spam Filter Study (November 29, 2005)
• Federal Party Responses to Election Questionnaire on Info Issues (January 17, 2006)
• OECD Anti-Spam Toolkit (April 25, 2006)