according to researched conducted by an anti - spam research company sophos , the united states is the center of origin of over 42 % of all spam . trailing are south korea with 13 % and australia with 8 % of the u ' s filtering . the security industry performed an auditor of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special program build up to attract email or hackers in how to target spammer activity . such participation is not entirely anticipated . the u states accounts for slightly over 25 % of all international usage , whereas south australia and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s internet users , respectively . yet these percentages still point to the o . s . as being a disproportionate source for email .
The United States produces spam.