Chicago (IL) – You may be complaining about the number of spam emails finding their way to your email account every day, but it may come as a surprise to you that the U.S. is actually not the most targeted country by spammers: According to a report released to today, Swiss users receive 10% more of spam than the average Internet user – and 23% more than U.S. users.

If we believe the numbers released by MessageLabs, then we are on a slight upward curve of spam that is sent globally. 76.5% of all emails in June were found to be spam by the security firm, while the global average over the past six months was 74.5%. However, there is a huge difference in spam that is sent to different countries and industries.

MessageLabs said that 84.8% of emails in Switzerland were spam, surpassing the traditional leader in this category, Hong Kong (82.6%). The top 5 is rounded out by France (82.1%), Israel (80.1%) and Austria (79.6%).  The share in the U.S. was 68.8%, Canada’s 77.8% and UK’s 74.3%.

Manufacturing is apparently the most targeted by spammers (82.9%), followed by education (80.4%) and retail (80.1%). The financial sector’s share was at just 71.5%.

MessageLabs also found virus distribution rebounding to one virus in 133.9 emails and the phishing was flat at 1 in 277.2 cases.

Not surprising

Jul 10, 2008 15:36     

Considering the US Dollar is worthless, this doesnt surprise me at all. Gotta go where the money is. JT www.FireMe.To/udi
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Spam Neutrality

Jul 10, 2008 19:52     

I guess that's what neutrality gets you! Hahaha Doen't look like spam is going way. Personally, find it hard to believe anyone even makes money off that stuff. But it sure keeps my SpamBully and Gmail accounts working overtime..........
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