according to research done by an anti - spamming research company sophos , the united states is the point of origin of over 42 % of all filtering . trailing are japan japan with 13 % and china with 8 % of the us ' s spam . the guard service performed an assessment of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special process made up to attract spam or spammers in how to study swindlers presence . such usage is not entirely unprecedented . the american states responsible for slightly over 25 % of all network downloads , whereas south korean and chinese have about 4 % and 11 % of the continent ' s email spending , respectively . so these percentages generally point to the n . s . as being a proportion supplier for e-mail .
The United States produces spam.