Proof that the United States is capitalism's capital, a survey released Thursday said that nearly all the world's spam is spewed by a limited number of hard-core spammers within the U.S. . . .
Proof that the United States is capitalism's capital, a survey released Thursday said that nearly all the world's spam is spewed by a limited number of hard-core spammers within the U.S.

Based on analysis of the spam it blocked for its 1,000-some clients during May, June, and July, message filtering firm CipherTrust said that a whopping 86 percent of all spam originated in the U.S.

Although U.S.-based IP addresses accounted for only 28 percent of the total addresses used to spam -- tying South Korea for the top spot -- spammers overwhelmingly favor U.S. domains. Messages from Korean IP addresses, in comparison, accounted for a paltry 3 percent of all spam mail. Similarly, China and Hong Kong, where about 23 percent of all spamming IP addresses reside, account for just 2.6 percent of all spam messages.

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