according to research taken by an anti - spam research company sophos , the nation states is the center of influence of over 42 % of all spam . follow are south korea with 13 % and ireland with 8 % of the world ' s spam . the security fund executed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a specialised system set up to attract spam or spyware in order to gauge scammers activity . such activity is not entirely unexpected . the united kingdom accounts for greatly over 25 % of all internet visits , though south korea and canada have about 4 % and 11 % of the year ' s internet subscribers , currently . while these percentages still point to the u . s . as being a proportion source for spam .
The United States produces spam.