So then, hands up who is surprised to hear that more than 95% of all email is junk?
No one? Good.
The bane of my life, I receive a hell of a lot of junk each day. Yesterday. I got 47 emails that I consider to be spam. But it must be said that Saturdays generally generate less emails for me than a weekday.
Anyway, analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic. Anti-virus firm Sophos has revealed the list of nations where most spam starts its journey across the net.
Top of the list is the US as, according to Sophos, 23.2% of spam originates there. This is probably due to the fact that broadband has become very popular in the US and has led many people leave inadequately protected PCs connected to the net all the time. In the number two position was China which sends out 20% of junk e-mail. Significantly the US and China occupy the number one and two spots in counts of total numbers of net users.
Next in the list come South Korea (7.5%), France (5.2%) and Spain (4.8%). The UK was tenth with 1.8%.
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