Although, India has one of the lowest Internet penetration in the world (less than 1%), it is forefront when it comes to online spamming. According to recently released report by Panda Security, India is ranked second among all countries from where spam originates.
The Top spamming country is Brazil, followed by India – Korea, Vietnam & United States round up the top 5 spamming countries.
Top Spamming Countries in the world
Brazil accounts for 13.76% of all spams sent out on the internet, India accounts for 10.98% and Korea accounts for 6.32%.
These findings were based on analysis by Panda Security of nearly five million spam messages generated in January and February 2010, sent from one million different IP addresses.
Top Spamming Cities in the world
When it comes to the cities, India capital New Delhi stands at 3rd position with over 1.67% of all spam sent from it alone. The number one position goes to Seoul which accounts for 4.64% of all Internet spam.
Hanoi, in Vietnam comes at 2nd position which accounts for nearly 4% of all spam. 3 Indian cities feature in top 20 cities – with 2 in top 6. New Delhi at 3rd, Mumbai at 6th and Hyderabad at 20th position.
It is surprising that Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore does not feature in this list, even though Bangalore has highest Internet penetration in the country !
Here are List of Top spamming cities in the world
|
City |
Country |
% |
|
Seoul |
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
4,64 |
|
Hanoi |
VIETNAM |
3,99 |
|
New Delhi |
INDIA |
1,67 |
|
Bogotá |
COLOMBIA |
1,33 |
|
São Paulo |
BRAZIL |
1,19 |
|
Bombay |
INDIA |
1,13 |
|
Bangkok |
THAILAND |
1,08 |
|
Bucharest |
ROMANIA |
1,00 |
|
Kiev |
UKRAINE |
0,96 |
|
Jakarta |
INDONESIA |
0,85 |
|
Buenos Aires |
ARGENTINA |
0,84 |
|
Rio De Janeiro |
BRAZIL |
0,84 |
|
Santiago |
CHILE |
0,80 |
|
Beijing |
CHINA |
0,67 |
|
Lima |
PERU |
0,66 |
|
Salvador |
BRAZIL |
0,63 |
|
Santo Domingo |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
0,62 |
|
Taipei |
TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA |
0,56 |
|
Moscow |
RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
0,56 |
|
Hyderabad |
INDIA |
0,47 |
There are so many reports out there – which one should be believed?
Here is another one – I think the most recent –
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
This is what Wikipedia says –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29#Geographical_origins
This report looks unusual. Usually when we hear about spams, the top three countries which come to one’s mind is US, China and Russia.
I could never think that India can spam so much. Yeah. Me too kinda bloggers can spam you to hell to promote their shitty blogs which feature “Opera 10.5 released” which contains copy-pasted information.
I call BS. Nearly half of the spam I get is from China (followed closely by US). I know as I regularly report spam to ISPs.
Hi Prabhu,
you are giving shock after shock :)
Really it is hard to believe that India is topping the list and Delhi is at 3rd place world-wide
with regard to spamming, i think the most of the spam email that I receive comes from outside India. specially in google and India Spam emails are mostly from the social sites and to promote products/services by the webmasters.
This is pretty shocking, if anyone would be asked for which country would produce most spam on the internet, the common answer would be USA or some European countries.
I guess Delhi and Mumbai is where most of the bloggers and webmasters are situated.
Are you implying that most of the bloggers are spammers ;D
Well most of mu blogger friends (including me) believe in spamming to promote ourselves and its a common thought that a person would spam only for some benefits, and according to me the only ones who stand to gain with spamming are bloggers, webmasters and internet marketers.