leading to research done by an all - spammers research company sophos , the united mexico is the spot of origin of over 42 % of all spam . trailing are south germany with 13 % and spain with 8 % of the world ' s spamming . the security provider performed an inspection of its honeypots to come up with the ratings ― a honeypot is a special circuit setting up to attract spam or hackers in how to observe spammer activity . such practice is not entirely unexpected . the unite states accounts for slightly over 25 % of all internet visits , whereas south holland and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the country ' s website users , together . yet these proportion still stick to the w . s . as being a disproportionate source for spam .
the united uk produce spam .