The Geography of Spam

Michael Airhart mairhart at cisco.com
Tue Mar 2 20:57:17 UTC 2004



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Somehow it seems like when you take into account the number of PCs on high 
speed connections, these numbers make a lot of sense.  The US has a large 
population of these PCs so yeah, duh, the US leads in compromised hosts.

IMO, what would be a really useful "report" or "study" is to expose the 
companies that are actually making money from "spam" advertising.  If it 
didn't work, these companies would hire firms to spam.  Follow the 
money.  Where does it go?  How can legal avenues be used to make spam as 
expensive direct mail or telemarketing?  (lawsuits, criminal prosecution, ?)

IMO

Michael
(speaking only for myself, ignore my @domain)

>anti-virus firm Sophos. The study concludes that most of the unsolicited
>junk e-mails originate in Russia and then passes through hacked computers
>in the U.S. "More than 30% of the world's spam is sent from these
>compromised computers, underlining the need for a coordinated approach to
>spam and viruses," said Charles Cousins, Sophos' Asia managing director .
>The U.S. accounts for a whopping 56% of the global spam pie, followed by
>Canada with 6.8%. Europe did not fair very well in the report either, with
>the Netherlands (5th), Germany (7th), France (8th), the U.K. (9th) and
>Spain (12th) all making the list.
>http://www.sophos.com/spaminfo/articles/dirtydozen.html




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