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By: Mathew Petrenko

Not long ago Sophos has finished the analysis of the most substantial unsolicited e-mail distributors, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. However, European countries have summed up higher percentage of junk e-mail than the United States do having their 19.6 percent. When corresponded to 2006, the second quarter displayed a worldwide 9 percent increment of junk e-mail. South Korea came in third place on the top with 6.5 percent spam, 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 conclusively India with 2.5 percent.

As the senior defense consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, declared “Once a machine is compromised, it is often used to send round junk e-mail for a huge amount of campaigns. And we have to use the CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam procedures to tell messages sent by real people from unsolicited e-mail messages.”. She also that that to strive against the unsolicited e-mail countries ought to be coherent. Paul Ducking gave his view on upgrowth the number of junk e-mail distributors: “Spam messages include a huge amount of topics from proposing different services to promoting many sorts of wares.”. The unsolicited e-mail business doesn’t require a lot of investment to keep it, so illegal junk e-mail companies can be set up almost everywhere and it’s been taking place hourly. Not only in the states with great amount of people and high level of technologies evolution like Africa. Protectwebform realized its own survey in the field of junk e-mail. Those findings differs from Sopho’s research, but they are very necessary to notice. Having analyzed the spam massages that had been entered in the specially created forms and then connoisseurs managed to define all of their features. Some conspicuous e-mail spam topics and Countries-spam-distributors were entered into the top registers. Regarding states-spam e-mail-providers, the leading position is held by USA, with 38 percent of general quantity of spam messages. Following, having a huge lag, 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 came upon the top. Unsolicited e-mail-messages circulation into topics was completed by the following method. Derived spam e-mail messages were divided by their themes to some directories so that in conclusion the catalogue of them was created.

As for the most popular unsolicited e-mail-message subjects, the leading position is held by “Drugs and Medications” which covers 24.7 percent overall junk e-mail-phrases; the second place is held by “Finance” with 16.6 percent. These are the definitive leaders . Other often occurring subjects are “Cell Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8 percent, “Adult” – 5.6 percent and “Gambling Institutions” – 4.2 percent.

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Methew Petrenko is a scientist in Internet marketing and author of many articles on Capthca. For more data visit our site. Methew Petrenko is a contributing author on the subjects of Anti-Spam for several Internet marketing journals. For more information see our site.

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