U.S. gets consecutive gold medals in spamming
According to Irish ISP IE Internet's monthly "e-mail security statistics" as taken from over 35,000 Irish businesses, the United States maintained its number one spot at the top of the spam charts for the month of June, producing 39.37% of Irish spam. That's a 4.74 percent increase since the month of May.
China, second on the list, was responsible for 17.05 percent of spam, under half the amount that the U.S. created. But that spam might be better counted under the American origin, as IE Internet attributes much of it to offshore American spammers. IE Internet's chief technical officer told Irish news site ENN that, "There's been a remarkable resurgence in the amount of spam coming from the US... The US used to be the dominant player in spam but when legislation was brought in many US spammers moved offshore."
