Pakistan ranks 9th in generating email spam: Report
Spam emails from Pakistan now account for 3.3% of total spam in the world.
Pakistan climbed up to ninth position in SophosLabs’ "Dirty Dozen” ranking for sending spam emails worldwide.
The rankings system for spam-relaying countries indicated that Pakistan had climbed two spots from it position at number 11 last year. Spam emails from the country now account for 3.3% of total spam in the world.
India topped the ranks this year for sending spam, beating the United States of America and South Korea. India now accounts for 9.3%of total spam emails sent in the world.
The top twelve spam relaying countries (January – March 2012)
The rankings system for spam-relaying countries indicated that Pakistan had climbed two spots from it position at number 11 last year. Spam emails from the country now account for 3.3% of total spam in the world.
India topped the ranks this year for sending spam, beating the United States of America and South Korea. India now accounts for 9.3%of total spam emails sent in the world.
The top twelve spam relaying countries (January – March 2012)
- India – 9.3%
- USA – 8.3%
- S Korea – 5.7%
- Indonesia – 5.0%
- Russia – 5.0%
- Italy – 4.9%
- Brazil – 4.3%
- Poland – 3.9%
- Pakistan – 3.3%
- Vietnam – 3.2%
- Taiwan – 2.9%
- Peru – 2.5%
- Other – 41.7%