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U.S. is World Leader in Spam
adept256 writes "Sophos outs 'dirty dozen' spam producing countries. And the USA is in the lead by a country mile. 'The United States is far and away the worst offender, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the world's spam. Even though European countries are responsible for less spam, they are still generating millions of junk emails a day,' said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos."
...and its spamming leader.
What are you talking about? I should be getting my million dollars from Nigeria in the mail next week!
While you Americans are spamming the world, we Canucks are gulping down herbal viagra, slathering growth cream on our willies and Making Money Fast.. Laugh at us, will you?!
Trolling is a art,
at least we're the leader in something these days; seems we suck at everything else anymore...
*No one* spells English as badly as we Americans do.
Is this because America is the world's leading source of haxored Windows machines with spam backdoors?
...for average US penis size.
:-)
Luckily, I'm British and we're only number 9 on the list
John.
Well the article also points out that much of the spam may orriginate in Russia from the hackers there. Who then subsequently take advantage of zombie machines in countries like the USA.
Well just dont let GWB learn of this, just what we need him to do, start a new cold war over spam. It be his newest attempt to revitalize the economy.
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U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. Yeah! We're number one, baby! Whooo!
Of course the US is the leading producer of SPAM. It was invented here. And according to the SPAM Museum, Hormel produces 435 cans of spam PER MINUTE in Austin, Minnesota.
Are you Corn Fed?
Wow... when I see my next ad for "enlargment pills" I'll smile with delight that the ad I'm looking at was made in America...
Did I mention that by smile I mean Be menacingly overcome... and by delight I actually mean rage... sweet glorious rage.
Another reason for my heart to swell with pride for my country
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So, when are we going to start seeing the complaints about how spam company owners are outsourcing to lower cost foreign providers and taking jobs away from good, hard working US spammers?
> I wish that the USA had a TLD that was only used there - it would make things so much easier...
I wish there was a TLD that was only used by spammers - it would make things so much easier...
Actually, that'd be a damn good title for a movie.
Hey, it's Friday, cut me some slack.
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Having read the articles regarding the percentage rates of conversion (ie: replies to spam that turn in to orders) it obviously makes regrettable sense that sending out a gazillion junk messages will bring a financial return, yet I can't help wondering WHY the spammers think sending around 50 variants of the same message to the same inbox are likely to enhance their sales prospects? Unless of course there's 50 different spamming companies all trying to sell the same product using the same junk mail list? In my case, spambayes crushes what mailwasher hasn't caught anyway!
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That the Bush team has been talking about. Instead of engineering or manufacturing America will be known the world over for it's spam producing might. We have the leet spam skills and will continue to be competetive for several years.
Yeah, were number 1, were number 1, were number 1! Take that Ossama. Lets see you Al Queada guys match our spam output! And the French can't even come close. Remembers when spam is outlawed only outlaws will spam.
Sigs are for losers.
we're number 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When punk rock is outlawed, only outlaws will have punk rock.
...but wait. Before ya know it, sending spam will be offshored to India too.
What?! The home of capitalism is also the home of spam?! How could this be? /sarcasm
WURD!!
...not written by someone who's first language is English.
Like you, say?
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and chant "We're number 1!"
Its always inches or pounds.
I've never received anything promising to add centimeters or lose kilograms.
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Free as in mason.
It's obvious to me now - we could cut the amount of in our inboxes by 60% by simply disconnecting the USA from the internet! So much like in sport, mobile telephony and many other areas of life, the USA can play with itself while the rest of the world plays with each other.
So no more spam about discount rate mortgages, cable descramblers and "meds" that are entirely US specific for us clean living, intelligent and hugely sexy Europeans to wade through each morning.
Come to think of it, maybe we should cut off Korea too.
That was classic intercourse!
To me he's English looks just fine. Just like my's.
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I should be getting my million dollars from Nigeria in the mail next week!
And just in time to pay for your penis enlargers.
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