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India 7th Spammiest Country, Russia Tops the Chart

October 9, 2008

By sinha

Image by silkegb via Flickr

Few months back, India was the least spammy among BRIC countries and as per a new report, India has beaten China and has moved up the ladder!

List of Spammy Countries

list of spammy countries and their contribution to the worldwide spam:

1. Russian Federation 11.92%
2. United States 9.36%
3. Brazil 7.48%
4. Turkey 5.43%
5. Columbia  5.34%
6. Argentina  4.96%
7. India 4.26%
8. China 3.39%
9. Spain 2.69%
10. Republic of Korea 2.57% – as per Trend Micro

Interestingly, 76% emails originating from India is a spam!

I, somehow don’t have 100% faith in these numbers as they are reflective of each report’s sample size (till august, India was below China (6th place) and now the equation is reversed – how does one explains that?)

What’s your take?

Tags: spam, Technology

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         About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in. He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]

2 Responses to “ India 7th Spammiest Country, Russia Tops the Chart ”

1. 

   Sidharth on October 9, 2008 at 7:16 pm

   I believe that somebody has “OUTSOURCED” the spamming job to some innovative BPO in India

   Reply
2. 

   Radhika on February 18, 2010 at 3:40 pm

   I am surprised india is on number 7. I think it should have been no.1 for spamming. We own a classified site. The Online Job Scam is in such a boom that posters keep on posting 100’s of spam ads with different email ids of which most of them are scams.

   We have recently banned home based jobs category and are now filtering ads.

   Reply