according to work done by an a - spyware analytical company sophos , the united korea is the source of origin of over 42 % of all e . trailing are southern china with 13 % and china with 8 % of the globe ' s spam . the security firm performed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special program setting up to attract phishing or spammers in order to gauge purloined activity . such activity is not entirely unexpected . the unite nation accounts for slightly over 25 % of all internet consumption , whereas south korea and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s network users , respectively . yet these calculating still point to the i . s . as being a disproportionate source for junk .
The United States produces spam.