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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."
From: Mr. Dave Fu Wong
Seoul, South Korea.
I will introduce myself I am Mr. Dave Fu Wong, a potato farmer working in a field in South Korea Until now I am the master potato grower of three million hectres to most of the South Korea government kitchens and I have since discovered that most of the potatoes lay dormant in silos with a lot of starch in the silo on further investigation I found out that one particular silo belong to the former president of South Korean MR PARK CHUNG HEE, who ruled south Korean from 1963-1979 and this particular silo has a deposit of grade A lucky golden variety potato with no next of kin. As you know, lucky goldens do not only taste like food from the gods but can be consumed raw like an apple as well as grown anywhere even during the winter.
My proposal is that since I am the master potato growing officer and the potatoes or the silo is dormant and there is no next of kin obviously the potato owner the former president of South Korea has died long time ago, that you should provide an account for the potatoes to be transferred.
The potatoes that are floating in the silo right now are some fifty kilotonnes and this is what I want to transfer to your farm in Idoho for our mutual benefit South Korean post office is so super efficient that a single postage stamp will get these potatoes to you post haste! Unfortunately postage stamp cost fifty Korean currencies or $10,000 American Dollars (apologies for your economy) please send bank account information or cash money order for immediate shipping.
Please if this is okay by you I will advice that you contact me through my direct email address.
Please this transaction should be kept confidential. For your assistance as the account owner we shall share the potatoes on equal basis.
Your reply will be appreciated,
Thank you.
Dave Fu Wong
My work here is dung.
Now all that's missing for a nutritious lunch is ham and eggs
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.
Maybe they get lonely out there and spam almost seems like someone cares to send them a message.
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My work here is dung.
MessageLabs unveiled a list of the top U.S. 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.
...what sort of poorly-stated metric is "percent of spam"
0 = 1 + e^(Alt something)
Idaho has 93% of spam. No.
Spam comprises 93% of emails in Idaho. Very big difference.
And as for the reasons given? Ridiculous, unless you can also explain why Idaho was disproportionately affected by those factors.
You want to know the real reasons Idaho is one of the most spammed states?
Higher percentage of "noob" users. Idaho came to the table pretty late, and a disproportionate number of people in Idaho don't yet know basic ways of reducing spam.
Or possibly, people in Idaho are more likely to fall for spam advertising.
But in no way do the reasons given (which relate to the total increase in spam) explain Idaho's predicament.
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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.
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I don't think whoever wrote the article understands what they're trying to explain. First, the author repeatedly says "percent of spam" (e.g. "the spam capital of the US is Idaho with 93.8 percent of spam," and "...Puerto Rico, with 83.1 percent of spam") when apparently the data is actually the percent of email received in the state which is spam. Second, the explanations given for Idaho topping this list have no relevance to the question whatever. Claiming botnets and the recession are to blame with no attempt to explain how these factors impact Idaho different than other states is nonsense! Finally, even if the author understood the data, the data is uninteresting without some test of statistical significance. The difference between states with highest and lowest spam rates is only 10%, is that significant? Is it repeatable if you sampled during a different interval? Who knows.
From what I gather it's not the ones that receive the most spam, but rather those for whom spam is the highest proportion of email. Maybe Idahoans receive the same number of spams as everybody else, but simply send and receive fewer legitimate emails. Or maybe there is no systematic difference between states at all, and the results would be entirely different if you looked at any month other than September 09. With just one sample there is no measure of variance and therefore no way to tell whether the result is significant.
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.
Um... no, those two facts can perhaps help to explain the overall increase in spam, globally. They do absolutely nothing to explain why Idaho, specifically, has jumped up the list of being spammed more often per capita.
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
Idaho is famous for it's potatoes.
Ever since I began reading Maddox articles I can't think of Idaho without this in mind.
I am the lawn!
Sorry, I forgot the comma.
Idaho is famous, for it's potatoes.