Anti-spam firm blasts US on phishing record

[Judi Lynn]

Anti-spam firm blasts US on phishing record
US-based spammers responsible for 54 per cent of phishing mails

Clement James, vnunet.com 18 Oct 2007

ADVERTISEMENTA UK anti-spam company has claimed that the majority of attempts to steal UK citizens' personal bank details via email are by US-based spammers.

ClearMyMail has said for some time that phishing emails are predominantly coming from the US, estimating the figure at 54 per cent of all such emails.

Spain is the second biggest culprit at 3.8 per cent, followed by Germany at 2.9 per cent and Korea at 2.8 per cent.

France comes in fifth at 2.7 per cent, followed by China at 2.7 per cent, Russia at 2.5 per cent, Japan at 2.2 per cent, Uruguay at 1.8 per cent and the UK at 1.4 per cent.

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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201441/anti-spam-firm-blasts-phishing

[Xipe Totec]

1. Not really a fair characterization

That's like saying beaches have the largest concentrations of sand.


Considering that the US has the highest number of PCs, a fraction of which are unprotected, and a fraction of that fraction are infected by netbots, which are the source of phishing spam, this should not be a surprise.


The original source of the infections does not even have to be in the US for the spam to originate in the US.