similar to researcher done by an anti - faxes research company sophos , the american states is the point of circulation of over 42 % of all e-mail . trailing are south korea with 13 % and china with 8 % of the world ' s emails . the security firm performed an exam of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special system set up to attract spam or spammers in order to gauge spammer activity . such activity is not wholly unexpected . the united netherlands accounts for somewhat over 25 % of all information usage , whereas south australia and australia have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s internet users , respectively . yet these disproportionately strongly map to the us . s . as being a disproportionate provider for spam .
The United States produces spam.