Now, that’s another record to our credit. In the whole of Asia, 70% of all total emails are spam and the Philippines has the worst figure of 88%. That’s almost 9 out of 10 emails are spam.
The average percentage of emails sent from the Asia-Pacific region that were spam was 69 percent, the report added.
Although the Philippines had the highest proportion of spam, China was the largest source of spam by sheer volume, the report said.
Thirty-seven percent of all spam detected from Asia-Pacific originated from China.
Symantec said in a statement that it could not provide the total number of e-mails monitored but that the results was based on data from over two million “decoy accounts” attracting email from 20 different countries.
Where are these spam emails coming from? You’d think there’s some sweatshop out there in remote cities blasting away millions and millions of spam for their clients abroad?
{source: ABS CBN News}
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But then again…
Most people nowadays use free email for their personal mail.
For example, I’m on Gmail and the only time I send mail using SMTP is when I’m at the office. When I do send mail, it’s mostly to colleagues in the office using the same email server.
Therefore, a large percentage of SMTP mail is spam, not because there’s a lot of spam but because people don’t use SMTP anymore.