Europe took over the spam championship

Symantec released (pdf) last week another monthly summary of the spam battlefields. This time, against the background of traditional descriptions of new original methods and tactics of annoying spammers, an event of global scale stands out - for three months in a row European countries occupied leading positions in the number of unwanted advertisements that European countries jointly put the Old World on the top. .

As seen in the diagram, today Europe produces 44% of global spam. Meanwhile, no later than in November 2007, the contribution of this part of the world was only at the level of 30%, one and a half times less than that of the countries on the other side of the Atlantic. Experts attribute such an explosion of activity to the growing popularity of broadband internet connection, thanks to which the productivity of the “work” of European spammers has increased significantly.

Also several times in the review were noted domestic spammers. Symantec specialists were impressed with the idea of ​​giving access to advertised porn sites only after user registration via paid SMS, and a series of advertising of biofuel power plants under the slogan “Make money from manure? Yes! ”Obviously aroused their sympathy for their progressive orientation.