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)

  1. India – 9.3%

  2. USA – 8.3%


  3. S Korea – 5.7%

  4. Indonesia – 5.0%

  5. Russia – 5.0%

  6. Italy – 4.9%

  7. Brazil – 4.3%

  8. Poland – 3.9%

  9. Pakistan – 3.3%

  10. Vietnam – 3.2%

  11. Taiwan – 2.9%

  12. Peru – 2.5%

  13. Other – 41.7%

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