Link Spam Statistics

The regular Link Spam Statistics inspection has proved that China and USA have a tarnished reputation of holding the outstanding positions in the register of spammers. Six of the top entries are from European countries which comprise a summed up higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US which today counts for 19.6 percent of unsolicited e-mail worldwide. Here is the top positions of the catalogue of spammers: South Korea 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 ultimately India with 2.5 percent, if you compare those showings with the results of 2006 year, you will see the worldwide 9 percent increase of junk e-mail.

As the main defense consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, stated “Once a mechanism is compromised, it is commonly used to send out unsolicited e-mail for a variety of campaigns. And we should use the CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam methods to tell messages sent by real people from spam messages.”. She has acknowledged that states should work together to attempt to overcome junk e-mail. Paul Ducking gave his view on upgrowth the number of spam providers: “Unsolicited e-mail include a huge amount of subjects from proposing various services to promoting some produces.”. He notifies in advance that unduly using of personal computers expands and may be put into practice from almost any location all over the world, even Africa, where internet systems are not as well spread as in USA, can be used as a platform of spam. Protectwebform carried out its own survey in the realm of junk e-mail. Those conclusions differs from Sopho’s research, but they are very interesting to observe. Having analyzed the e-mail spam massages which had been entered in the specially made forms and then specialists managed to determine all of their features. Some conspicuous unsolicited e-mail topics and Countries-spam-distributors were entered into the top lists. Regarding countries-spam e-mail-distributors, the leading position is held by USA, with 38 percent of general quantity of junk e-mail messages. Next, with a great gap, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. The European countries are: just Spain – 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy – 1.7 percent fallen into the top. Junk e-mail-messages promotion into subjects was accomplished by the following method. The specialists divided spam-phrases, the have received into sections, and then they classified gained directory names, thus assigning general themes.

The leading position is held by “Drug and Medications” subject with 24.7 percent, the second position - by “Finance” with 16.6 percent. Another often occurring themes are “Cell Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Sex” – 5.6 percent and “Online casinos” – 4.2 percent.

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Methew Petrenko is a researcher in Internet marketing and author of many articles on Link Spam Statistics. For more information see our site. Methew Petrenko is a successful writer on the subjects of Capthca for various Internet marketing journals. For more data see our site.

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