per to research done by an non - spam research company sophos , the u states is the country of origin of over 42 % of all spam . trailing are central asia with 13 % and spain with 8 % of the u ' s spam . the security office performed an inventory of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special system set up to track spam or spammers in order to gauge senders involvement . such involvement is not entirely unexpected . the united states accounted for slightly over 25 % of all websites traffic , whereas south russia and spain have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s network users , respectively . while these digit always point to the u . s . as being a disproportionate source for spam .
The United States produces spam.