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Tired of deleting spam from your Inbox or spam folders. Don't fret at the US or UK sellers of Viagra, its Indians who are the worst defaulters.
More than four percent of the total global spam, originates from India, the leader among Asian countries in spam.
India is ahead of China (3.39%), Korea (2.57%) and Thailand (2.04%) in sending junk mails.
From marriage invitations to property dealers to invitations to visit porn sites, Indians are leading the way.
Spam mail often contains virus, malware and Trojans that attack your computer or steal valuable data.
Huge calamity
"Most spam today is sent to advertise 'get-rich-quick' schemes and similar dubious products. Starting off as a small irritant that most enterprises used to ignore, spam has today taken the shape of a huge calamity.
Enterprises not having a policy to curb spam will eventually see their profitability and productivity being affected," Niraj Kaushik, Country Manager India & SAARC, Trend Micro.
Voluminous
Spam mails today occupy nearly 80 percent of all Internet traffic. The amount of spam globally today has reached a whopping 664 crore each day. The rapid growth of broadband connections and the use of virus distribution by spam have created large collections of 'Zombie' machines on broadband networks sitting ready to serve the needs of the spammer (creating large volumes of spam mail from previously unknown systems).
Globally, the Russian Federation heads the list of spammers accounting for more than 11 per cent of total spam, followed by the United States of America at 9.36 per cent. Trend Micro reports that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia India and China) together account for around 20 per cent of
all spam.
Continued growth
Spam from emerging markets will continue to grow till the proper Internet infrastructure is in place. The world's top 10 spam relaying countries account for about 57.4 per cent of the global spam volumes.
What is a spam?
An electronic message is spam if the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant or the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent or the transmission and reception of the message appears to give benefit to the sender.
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