subsequent to research did by an anti - e-mail research company sophos , the u countries is the point of origin of over 42 % of all spam . trailing are east korea with 13 % and turkey with 8 % of the world ' s spam . the security firm performed an accounting of its honeypots to come up with the figures ― a honeypot is a special device set up to draw spam or spammers in order to gauge oliphant activity . such activity is not entirely unexpected . the united world accounts for slightly over 25 % of all internet usage , whilst south korea and china have about 4 % and 11 % of the nation ' s internet users , each . yet these percentages still point to the 0 . s . as being a disproportionate supplier for spam .
The United States produces spam.