according to researcher do by an after - sender research company sophos , the united states is the point of originated of over 42 % of all emails . trailing are japan korea with 13 % and china with 8 % of the world ' s spam . the security firm performed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special system set up to spot spam or spammers in order to gauge poacher behaviour . such activity is not entirely surprised . the unified countries accounts for slightly over 25 % of all online use , thus southern korea and taiwan have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s internet users , respectively . yet these percentages will point to the u . s . as being a unjustifiable source for junk .
The United States produces spam.