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Idaho Tops America's Most-Spammed States

Posted by timothy on from the utah-loses-out-for-once dept.

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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  1. usa by sopssa · · Score: 0, Troll

    The interesting question is NOT why Idaho state spams the most, but WHY usa spams so much. It's not even the largest country in the world; china, india, russia and others go beyound. Still their spam levels are a lot lower.

    Noting about "US connectivity" doesn't work either. There's a lot more people with internet connections around the world, but only USA seems to have the problem with so much malware and spam.

    Please educate your people, because it affects rest of the world too.