according to research performed by an anti - sender research house sophos , the united mexico is the point of influence of over 42 % of all spam . trailing are latin africa with 13 % and china with 8 % of the nation ' s filtering . the security firm performed an audit of its honeypots to show up with the numbers ― a honeypot is a special process set up to attract spam or spammers in order to gauge spammer behavior . such action is not entirely unexpected . the united states accounts for much over 25 % of all internet activities , so northeast korea and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s internet consumers , separately . yet these percentages only point to the w . s . as being a disproportionate source for spam .
The United States produces spam.