according to data created by an in - spam investigation company sophos , the united states is the point of circulation of over 42 % of all spamming . trailing are south germany with 13 % and china with 8 % of the world ' s spam . the security firm performed an auditor of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special circuit opened up to attract spam or mailers in order to gauge phishing activity . such activity is not entirely unusual . the united states cares for little over 25 % of all information usage , respectively south carolina and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the world ' s electronic user , separately . indeed these adjusted now point to the u . s . as being a disproportionate source for filtering .
The United States produces spam.