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U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In 2004
der Kopf writes "As reported by ZDNet, '42 percent of all spam sent this year came from the United States,' which makes the U.S. the unthreatened king of the 2004 spam hill. Number two on the list is South Korea (with 13.43%), while China can be found in third place (with 8.44%). The U.S. put out more spam this year than all the other countries in the top 12 combined." All depends who's counting, I guess.
That one just isn't going to change. Never has, never will.
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All depends who's counting, I guess.
This study comes from the UK; given recent electoral history, I'm far more inclined to trust that they can count than I am to trust any study which comes out of the US.
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I wonder if we will begin hearing tales of admins blocking US based IPs as we have heard of them blocking Chinese IPs outright.
If most of the spam comes from the US, that means that any anti-spam legislation passed here could have a huge effect.
;-)
Of course, now we have to wait for Congress to actually do something about it.
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This would be a good thing if it's accurate, that would mean that close to half of all spam would be under US jurisdiction, which means they can be sued and shut down in the US.
Now an article with research backing it shows the US as the major culprit, and what does everyone do? Make excuses or jokes. What makes you think the Chinese don't have zombie machines? Or is it ok for the US to spam, but no one else?
And the fact of the matter is, aside from a few random Russian/Chinese emails (1 in 100), most of the spam I receive is offering goods and services in English, directed at the North American market. 'Where' the spam comes from doesn't really matter, what the spam is selling and where that thing is should.
It isn't just the source of spam - 95% or so of the spam is very obviously targetted at americans, too.
Ok, porn sites are international, but mortgage refinancing and what else the other crap is seems totally US-centric to me.
I'm sure 95% of the idiots who buy from spammers can be found in the US, too.
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All depends who's counting, I guess.
Yeah, right...
If I were counting, that would be more like 99% than 42%, sadly.
More precisely, I'd say that 42% of the spam being relayed from computers in the US sounds about right. But when it comes to the target audience, or the companies/individuals behind the spamvertised goods/services/scams, it suddenly looks like a 99% american problem in my (and most people's) view.
I had already commented on this
Sad, but certainly not Slashdot headline-worthy.
From my observations I find that Americans hire the Koreans and Chinese and send there junk from there ip space.
... but funded by an american(s)
Korean/'insert country name here' send spam - yes
Now in the case of Robert Solaway (as seen on spamhaus) I find he uses borked windoze boxes worldwide to send his junk (he also hosts in China - well thats what the dns reports)
Murky stuff this.
Send Peter Clifford Francis Macrae comdoms to 23 Bedford St, St.Neots, PE19 1AX, England
What gets me is that the spammers bother to send the spam outside Jesusland. The uptake on 'Low Cost Mortgages from USA' in Europe has to be 0.00%.
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Just because you're a mentally challenged, nazi-voting, mouth-breathing American doesn't give you the right to condescend to other countries. Apart from that, most of the spam I get advertises American websites, American fake Rolex watches and American drugs - in fact, I can use that as a pretty good spamfilter, since I'm a German living in Germany; I need only check for American English as the language and can dump it in my spam folder.
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This would be a good thing if it's accurate, that would mean that close to half of all spam would be under US jurisdiction, which means they can be sued and shut down in the US./p?
It is true. Americans generate the problem to sell products to solve the problem.
The legal system in the US is not interested in enforcing SEC regulations, fraud laws or business licensing issues with regards to spam. You can't put 80% of the business in court for being spammers. The company you work for might be a spammer - they just quietly outsource it.
i.e. the backhanders that senators and wotnot get from 'advertising' businesses mean that the laws have little or no teeth.
I mean, in the US, it's pretty much legal to say just about anything in an advertisements. In the UK, you have to be actually not misleading.
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