In 2007 Sophos made public its monthly list of worldwide Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the utmost wrongdoers when it comes to countries sending spam. Six of the head entries are from European states that comprise a united higher percentage of unsolicited e-mail than the US that today counts for 19.6 percent of junk e-mail worldwide. There is the top points of the list of spammers: South Korea 6.5 percent unsolicited e-mail, 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 compare those outcomes with the showings of 2006 year, we should find out the worldwide 9 percent increase of junk e-mail.

As the senior safety consultant of Sophos, Carole Theriault, declared ?One day a mechanism is compromised, it is often used to circulate junk e-mail for a huge amount of campaigns. And we must use the CAPTCHA system and Anti Spam procedures to distinguish messages whish has been sent by real people from unsolicited e-mail messages.”. She has admitted that countries should work together to attempt to strive against junk e-mail. “That is no surprise in fact that compromised computers can distribute unsolicited e-mail all over the world” noticed the chief of technology at Sophos Asia Pacific, Paul Ducklin. He warns that spam distributors are got ready to use systems illegally from all over the world in order to send unsolicited e-mail. ?The map shows activity almost everywhere people live.” he said, ?Africa can not yet be very equipped, but it's of course wired sufficiently to be suitable for the spammers.”. Protectwebform produced its own research in the realm of e-mail spam. Those findings differs from Sopho's research, but they are very interesting to observe. During many months Protectwebform examined junk e-mail messages, that have been received in forms, specially provided by their company. Some prominent spam topics and Countries-spam-distributors were inserted into the top catalogues. Regarding countries-unsolicited e-mail-distributors, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 percent of overall amount of spam messages. Next, with a huge gap, comes China with 5.3 percent, Ukraine with 4.7 percent and Russia with 3.8 percent. The European countries are: only Spain - 3.2 percent, Germany - 2.8 percent and Italy - 1.7 percent got into the catalogue. Unsolicited e-mail-messages promotion into themes was implemented by the following method. Derived spam messages were divided by their subjects to some folders so that later the list of them could be compiled.

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