leading to research undertaken by an against - spam research company sophos , the uk states is the point of origin of over 42 % of all spam . preceding are south germany with 13 % and china with 8 % of the asia ' s email . the security firm performed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a security system fixed up to attract spam or spammers in order to investigate spammer activities . such behaviour is not largely natural . the united states accounts for little over 25 % of all internet spending , therefore sud koreans and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the us ' s internet users , respectively . yet these hispanics do point to the u . s . as being a disproportionate target for spam .
The United States produces spam.