In 2007 Sophos made public its quarterly list of global Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the top wrongdoers when it comes to commonwealths sending unsolicited e-mail. Six of the head entries are from European states that comprise a combined higher percentage of junk e-mail than the US which at present counts for 19.6 percent of spam worldwide. When corresponded to 2006, the second quarter saw a worldwide 9 percent increment of spam. South Korea came in third place on the roll with 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.

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