An interesting article naming the 10 biggest spammers, the top 10 ISP's spam comes from, and the top 10 spamming nations:
World’s Worst Spammers Named and Shamed
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I hate it, you hate it, everyone hates spam.
Perhaps just as annoying as the fact that most of us have no interest in improving our sexual performance, enlarging our sexual organs or accepting a refinancing deal from a complete stranger, is the fact that we just do not know who the spineless dirt-bags are behind the spam. Until now, thanks to those wonderful chaps at The Spamhaus Project
Spamhaus is an international non-profit organization founded in 1998, based in the UK, which provides real-time anti-spam protection for Internet networks via its spam-blocking databases, including the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) and the Exploits Block List (XBL). Broadcast from a network of 32 servers in 12 countries, the Spamhaus block-lists are used by many of the Internet's major Internet Service Providers, Corporations, Universities, Government and Military networks, and currently protect the mailboxes of over 630 Million Internet users.
But Spamhaus does much more than this, using the data it collects for its block lists, it is able to analyze and maintain evidence on the most prolific spam gangs around the planet, which it publishes as the Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO), used by ISPs to avoid signing up known spammers and by law enforcement agencies to help with investigations and prosecutions.
What this reveals, rather alarmingly, is that around 80% of spam that targets Internet users in North America and Europe is actually generated by a small hardcore group of no more than 200 professional spam gangs. Although the profile will change week by week, as I write this article the 10 spammers or spam gangs causing the most damage on the Internet according to ROKSO are: (continued) |
You'll have to visit the article to see the names of the spammers & ISP's, but I here's the list of the top spamming nations:
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1. United States (1990)
2. China (296)
3. Japan (245)
4. Russia (229)
5. Canada (164)
6. South Korea (161)
7. United Kingdom (147)
8. Taiwan (139)
9. Hong Kong (136)
10. Netherlands (129) |
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