So Much Junk from India

India has now become the world’s fourth largest producer of spam in email messages.

You got unwanted mail? You’re not alone. According to the October 2009 State of Spam report brought out by Symantec, which deals in anti-spam technology, spam levels went up by 15.5 per cent since February 2008, and made up 87 per cent of all email messages. And India has had a huge role to play in this, having now become the world’s fourth largest producer of spam. Indeed, spam originating from countries in the Asia Pacific and Japan region has risen in a matter of months. While the US remains the king of spam, followed by Brazil, Vietnam jumped 13 spots to rank third in the list of countries from where spam originates.

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