Geographic origins of spam

A report from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) claims the United States of America leads the world in both spam production and spam consumption.

Spam Origins, March 2003
United States	58.4%
China	5.6%
United Kingdom	5.2%
Brazil	4.9%
Canada	4.1%
Others	21.8%
Source: UNCTAD

Published on: November 26, 2003 Department: E-mail

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29% of Internet users buy from spam emails
74% of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam
87% of all teens engage in electronic communication
210 mln corporate mailboxes run on Exchange in 2008
20% of Americans have not used e-mail yet
56% of Internet users send e-mail every day
36% of e-mails to the bank go unanswered
20% of business to rely on Webmail by 2012
16% Americans have exchanged emails regarding Presidential candidates
Commercial email in health services companies will grow by almost 25% in 2007-2012
38% of marketers think search ads have the best ROI
66% of online doctors forwarded content to colleagues
51% of marketers cannot track campaigns across multiple channels
81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
34.1% of users open an e-mail by 5 pm
90% of e-mails delivered to large companies in November 2007 were spam
E-mail CTR reaches 3.9% on Wednesdays
60% of business correspondence has grammar or spelling errors
E-mail marketing spending to reach $2.1 bln by 2012
$3.2 bln lost to phishing in 2007
E-mail advertising to grow to $616 mln by 2011
38% of US employees have sent an e-mail without required attachment
38 mln mobile e-mail users in the US by 2008
List turnover biggest issue for e-mail marketers
In 2007 spam will overtake personal e-mail
Spam costs US businesses $612 per employee per year
75% of adults prefer e-mail to IM, 75% of teens prefer IM to e-mail
50-80% of e-mail in Europe is spam
Less than one-fifth of teenagers use e-mail for communication
109 mln Americans received phishing e-mails
77% of junk e-mail gets filtered out based on From: field
2.97% of Gmail filtered spam is false positive
E-mail archiving to generate $921 mln by 2010
Countries with most-populated address books: Argentina, Hong Kong, Austria, South Korea
$630 mln lost in 2 years to e-mail scams
Top Exchange problems for sysadmins: Outlook client and SMTP
Only 0.45% of e-mails sent in July 2006 were malicious
64% of spam servers are in Taiwan, 23% are in the US
Global revenue in e-mail security market to grow to $6 bln by 2010
38% of US and UK companies read e-mails written by employees
0.37% of e-mails sent in May 2006 contained viruses
36% of companies have no email or IM policies in place
93% of marketers plan to use e-mail in their efforts, 80% plan to use search
60 bln e-mails sent daily
23.1% of spam is relayed in the US, 21.9% - in China
82% of email marketers say delivery is a challenge nowadays
Most popular topics for alerts are general news, weather, industry news
92% of Web sites offer contact by e-mail option, only 41% acknowledge the e-mail
Marketing e-mails sent on Sunday generate 7.2% click-through rates
39% of email admins would rather go through colonoscopy than find the cause for email problem
91% of emails in India are spam
70% of Fortune 100 companies authenticate outbound e-mails
Average Chinese Internet user gets 16.8 spam e-mails a day
45% of British IT departments say users should do their own backups
Top spamming domains: hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com
52.46% of Jan 2006 spam was drug-related
43.18% of spam sent in Jan 2006 originated in the US
E-mail marketing spending to reach $1.1 bln by 2010
63% of US Internet users share some content via e-mail at least once a week
E-mail marketing spending to reach $1.1 bln by 2010
60% of e-mail sent daily is spam
Open rates for marketing e-mail down 29% in Q4 2005
88% of e-mail admins consider e-mail restoring utilities valuable
1.2 bln active e-mail accounts worldwide in 2005
Solving an e-mail problem at a large US corporation involves dealing with 4 departments
27% of US corporate employees reached the amount of storage space for their corporate e-mail inbox
100 mln of e-mails to President Bush to go into national archives
60 mln junk e-mails sent in China daily
Spam volume down by 75% in 2005
84 bln e-mails to go out daily in 2006, 33 bln of them spam
Spam volume drops 9% in January-August 2005
Excite and GMail block 39% of permission-based e-mail
Only 1.4% of business users have access to secure wireless email
Average person can recognize 75% of phishing e-mails
Online retailer e-mail newsletters get 11% CTR
135.6 mln e-mails sent daily in 2005
3.65 mln corporate e-mail accounts are forwarded to Blackberry, 126 mln use Outlook
80% of companies leak confidential information via IM systems
40% of office workers spend 0.5-3 hours reading poorly written e-mail
25% of companies offering e-mail newsletters fail to offer any incentive
Commercial e-mail opening rates down to 27.5% in Q2 2005
E-mail security market to generate $5.5 bln by 2010
64% of hosted e-mail customers are currently small businesses
Top spam generators: USA - 26%, Korea - 20%, China - 16%
21% of permission-based e-mail was not delivered in the first half of 2005
123 mln mobile Americans to check their e-mails on the phone by 2009
European corporate mobile e-mail market to reach 13.5 mln users by 2009
Webmail services in the US: Yahoo! - 63.6 mln users, AOL - 48.7 mln, Hotmail - 44.4 mln
Web-based e-mail shares: Hotmail - 35.5%, Yahoo! Mail - 35.1%
45% of realtors rely on e-mail for primary communications with clients
E-mail and calendaring software to grow at 7.3% a year
Top US e-mail domains for delivery rates: mail.com, earthlink.net, peoplepc.com
61% of mailboxes are delivered through Webmail interfaces
18% of companies archive instant messaging traffic, 48% archive e-mails
67% of companies expect anti-spam products to include anti-virus, compliance, encryption
80% of spam in June 2005 was about money and health, 5% - porn
11% of PC users bought a product advertised by spam
84% of e-mail coming from SPF-signed domains was spam
Congress received 172 mln e-mails, 18 mln postal letters in 2004
30.2% of e-mail got opened in Q1 2005
63% of large companies employ or will employ people to audit outbound e-mail
E-mail delivery rates for editorial newsletters reach 97.6% in Q1 2005
56% of Moms self-protect from spam by reading From and Subject lines
E-mail filtering market to reach $2.87 bln in 2008
66% of companies to invest in e-mail security
63% of US corporations will read employees’ e-mail
27% of e-mails sent to customer support are ignored
People check e-mail 5 times a day on average
683 mln e-mail users worlwide, 130 bln e-mails sent daily
52% of e-mail users agreee that spam is a big problem
Sober worm is in 79% of all infected e-mails
33% of US companies monitor employees’ e-mail
88.5% of opt-in e-mail newsletters get delivered by ISPs
57% of spam originates from US, 16% from South Korea
22% of users spend less time on e-mail because of spam
22% of permission-based e-mail was blocked by ISPs in 2004
0.35% of all e-mails sent resulted in a sale
Gmail switchers: 57% came from Hotmail, 27% from Yahoo!
Canadian junk e-mail level drops to 49% in 2004
Zombie spam share down to 59%
Antispam solutions market to reach $1.7 bln in 2008
54% of e-mail marketers cannot confirm delivery
40% of employees spend at least an hour a day on personal e-mails
Hotmail facts: 190 mln users in 22 countries
50% of UK teenagers use MSN Hotmail
14% of users read spam, and 4% buy products advertised in spam
21% of spam in January 2005 was porn
97% of spam was not CAN-SPAM-compliant
Small businesses get hit with ten times more spam than big companies
30% of online Americans did not like merchants’ holiday greetings by e-mail
60% of e-mails sent to UK students is spam
Most popular spam subject lines: Vioxx, phishing, live on camera
$180 mln was spent on e-mail archiving software in 2004
Spam accounted for 77% of all e-mail traffic in 2004
AOL reports 24% drop in amount of spam sent to members
Where spam comes from: US, Korea, China, Canada
20% of UK Internet users bought software pitched by spam
3.8% click on retailers’ promotional e-mails
651 e-mail users globally
Verisign says 80% of e-mail is spam
E-mail has 1.12% advertisement response rate
690 mln e-mail boxes worldwide, 67% of them hosted
Average corporate user receives sends 34, receives 99 e-mails a day
Americans lost $500 mln to phishing
61% of e-mail marketers don’t report bounced e-mails
60% of North American users are using some anti-spam solution
Only 6.9% of e-mails were infected by virus in August 2004
$41 bln will be spent on spam defense in 2004
38% of all North American e-mails are spam
1 exabyte of e-mail sent in 2003
29% of Web users send as many instant messages as e-mails
Top 10 spam countries for July
In 28% of the cases consumers fall for phishing e-mail
14% of business users think e-mail will become obsolete
78% of executives worry about network security, but still open e-mail attachments
Almost half of large companies monitor outgoing e-mail
5 countries generate 99% of spam
More than 50% of phishing victims report identities stolen
64% of May e-mail was spam
85% will open an attachment, if it came from a friend
Daily Comcast users send 100 mln valid messages, 700 mln spam e-mails
Spam cost companies $2000 an employee a year
Health care is primary category for spam
80% of spam originates from infected machines
10-15% of unsubscribe links do not work
E-mail CTR increases by 96% in Q1 2004
50% of customer e-mails end up in void
Kids get spam and porn spam
Cost of spam to average company is $4.1 mln
Phishing e-mails increase thousandfold
Users without anti-spam spend 43 minutes checking e-mails
Russian ISPs spent $55 mln fighting spam
NetZero’s spam filters are the toughest
E-mail marketing to reach $6.1 bln in 2008, 6395 spam messages a year
Canadians receive 7,000 spam messages a year
More than 75% of anti-spam software vendors to disappear
77% of Internet users are uncomfortable online because of spam
19% of marketing e-mails never reach customers
Biggest spammers in the world
65% of newsletters are used for personal, 40% for business reasons
Brightmail says 60% of e-mail is spam
Legitimate e-mail blocks will cost $419 mil in 2008
Spam and filters are biggest challenges in e-mail marketing
Phishing up 400% over Christmas holidays
5% respond to phishy e-mail
83% of Americans will register for ‘do-not-spam’ list
35 M e-mails will be sent out daily by 2005
Sophos: Third of spam e-mail is sent through 0wned PCs
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Solid Oak: As much as 90% of e-mail is spam
50% of consumers boycott spammers
Luth: Donations through e-mail don’t quite work
Pew report on spam
Radicati: Spam statistics
In-flight e-mail numbers
E-mail: People read only 65% of the newsletters
Radicati: Anti-spammers make more money than spammers
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