Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States

An anonymous reader writes "MessageLabs unveiled a list of the top US spammed states, with surprising results — the spam capital of the US is Idaho, with 93.8 percent of spam, far exceeding the global spam rate for September 2009 of 86.4 percent. Idaho has jumped 43 spots since 2008 when it was ranked the 44th most spammed state. The difference can be attributed to the resilient and aggressive botnet market as well as a higher volume of global spam that has ensued since the beginning of the credit crisis toward the end of 2008."

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[Reason58]

The interesting question is NOT why Idaho state spams the most, but WHY usa spams so much

This is a list of the most spammed states, meaning the ones which receive the most spam. Not the ones which send the most.

My personal war...

[NoYob]

âoeSpammers have taken full advantage of both the economic uncertainty of some and the trustworthiness of others for their own rewards. Automated tools, resilient botnets and targeted spam campaigns are all part of the spammersâ(TM) toolkit and they are constantly evolving these techniques to outsmart any effort to stop them. No state is immune to the affects of spam.â

Whenever someone asks me about a spam email and whether the email is true, I respond with "No legitimate business uses spam, unsolicited email, or whatever you want to call it. They are all scams - no exceptions."

Start educating people that that email in their inbox is a scam. Period. And maybe, just maybe, one day those crooks will stop this shit.