Not long ago Sophos has finished the research of the most substantial spam distributors, as the Link Spam Statistics found out, they are China and USA. But, European countries have united higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the United States do with their 19.6 percent. You can see the leading positions of the catalogue of spammers: South Korea 6.5 percent spam, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and finally India with 2.5 percent, if we confront those results with the showings of 2006 year, you will find out the worldwide 9 percent increase of spam.

As the major safety consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, declared ?One day a machine is compromised, it is often used to circulate junk e-mail for a diversity of campaigns. And we should use the CAPTCHA test and Anti Spam methods to distinguish messages whish has been sent by real human from spam messages.”. She also that that to strive against the junk e-mail states have to be coherent. Paul Ducking gave his view on development the number of spam providers: ?Junk e-mail includes a lot of themes from suggesting various services to selling some wares.”. The unsolicited e-mail business doesn't demand lots of investment to keep it, so unlawful unsolicited e-mail companies may be organized almost everywhere and it's been occurring hourly. Not only in the locations with dense population and good level of computer systems development like Africa. Protectwebform realized its own survey in the field of e-mail spam. Those results differs from Sopho's research, but they are very interesting to notice. During several months they analyzed unsolicited e-mail messages, which have been received in forms, specially created by their company. In a result of analysis of those e-mail spam messages and sender IP-addresses they determined the leaders of unsolicited e-mail topics and spam providers. Concerning countries-spam e-mail-distributors, the top position is taken by USA, with 38 percent of overall amount of spam e-mail messages. Following, having a big lag, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. From European countries just Spain - 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy - 1.7 percent fallen into the top. Junk e-mail-messages promotion into topics was completed by the following method. They divided junk e-mail-phrases, distributing them into sections, and then they classified obtained folder names, thus defigning general topics.

The first place is occupied by ?Drug and Medications” topic with 24.7 percent, the second position - by ?Finance” with 16.6 percent. Another popular topics are ?Mobile Phones & Ringtones” - 6.8 percent, ?Adult” - 5.6 percent and ?Gambling Institutions” - 4.2 percent.