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Slashdot reports
U.S. is World Leader in Spam.
You can also see the list of top spamming countries at Spamhaus (bottom left corner of the page).

This is because
- Americans are rich
- Americans have lots of computers
- Americans can't be bothered to secure their computers
- Americans are greedy
- Americans are foolish

Most spam has the goal of transferring money from foolish Americans to greedy Americans.
As I have said before, this idea of vast international spam conspiracies is ridiculous.
The spammers are in the US, wanting US dollars so they can buy big US houses at which to park their big US cars.

These characteristics of course also apply to other countries, but not to such extremes.

There is also lots of spam sent by compromised Canadian computers on broadband.

If only someone had mentioned this issue before
2003-11-26 19:47:57 US is biggest source and sink for spam (articles,spam) (rejected) posted by Richard at 09:08 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)