according to research completed by an anti - email research company sophos , the united states is the point of origin of over 42 % of all spam . following are central korea with 13 % and china with 8 % of the world ' s spam . the privacy firm performed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special systems set up to attract phishing or spammers in order to gauge senders activity . such association is not fully unexpected . the individual states accounts for slightly over 25 % of all internet usage , though south korea and australia have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s net users , specifically . all these percentages still point to the u . s . as being a undue source for junk .
The United States produces spam.