China leads – in SPAM
p2pnet.net News:- While China relentlessly hammers Net use inside its borders, it’s equally relentlessly allowing Chinese companies to pollute the world with spam messages.
China hosts 73.58% of the web sites referenced in spam messages, says a new report for the first half of this yeat.
But with 55.69%, the US is the Number One originator of all global spam, states Commtouch here.
Most global spam was written in English, with foreign languages employed for a mere 5.77%.
The report also says 9.8% of all spam was CAN-SPAM compliant, meaning: the email message has a functioning return email address; a postal address is included in the sent email message; within the email message there is an ability for a recipient to ‘unsubscribe’; the subject line of the email is not deceptive; and there is clear and conspicuous identification that the email message is an advertisement or solicitation.
The volume of spam email originated primarily from: 1,United States, 55.69%; 2, South Korea,10.23%; 3, China, 6.60%; 4, Brazil, 3.35%; 5, Canada, 3.08%; 6, Hong Kong, 3.03%; 7, Japan, 2.46%; 8, Spain,1.80%; 9, France, 1.23%; and, 10, United Kingdom,1.20%.
July 2nd, 2004 at 5:46 am
Just a quick note to anyone reading this…..
If you get a ’single’ spam from one e-mail address, and it has an ‘unsubscribe’ feature, please do not use it!
As soon as you hit ‘unsubscribe’, you have just validated your address for future spams.
If you are getting ‘multiple’ spams from the same address, best bet would to use your e-mail filter to block them in the future.
(Please don’t use ‘unsubsribe’ unless the e-mail is from a legitimate site, ie Yahoo, E-Bay, Amazon, Kodak, etc.)
Note that these spammers are in it for the money, and will be happy as pie to know that your e-mail is active. They themselves might not send you any more spam, but you can be sure that your address will be added to other smammers ‘hotlists’.