The Top 10 Worst Spam Offenders
Tech Blogs, Statistics, Rights and Wrongs, Security, Internet, Blogging, Privacy November 20th, 2006
It’s like the FBI’s most wanted list for spam
Spamhaus, an international non-profit organization whose mission is to track the Internet’s Spam Gangs, has released list of the top 10 spam offenders of the year.
Of all Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the world, Verizon Business is the number one offender on the list with almost triple the number of current known spam issues as its competitor SBC Communications.
Given that the most spammy ISPs are American, then it should come as no surprise that the United States leads all other countries with 1,983 current known spam issues. The next country in line is China with 304 known issues.
The worst spammers, however, are a different geographic picture, with the top (dis)honor going to Alex Blood of the Ukraine. Out of the top 10 spammers list, more than half were from Eastern Europe. The U.S. made the list twice at spots third and tenth.
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Did you see the story yesterday about Nigeria and internet fraud apparently they are getting £150m off of British citizens through rouge e-mails and internet cons.
Also I don’t know if its my computer again or a problem at your end ,but as i’ve been writing my comment,the text has been going right through the catergories section and you can’t read what you’ve written.
Forgot to say ,I’ve also changed your link in our blogroll and I enjoyed the Chimay Sunday morning.
Dave,i don’t know how that thing looks about writing because i don’t have it.
Could you take a screenshot of that?
I haven’t heard yet about the Nigerians scams.Yesterday my tv wasn’t turned on to BBC news.
And thanks for updating my link.
It looks ok when you log on to make a comment but as soon as you start to type,the comments box expands for some reason and is at the moment disappearing into your blogs section,at the moment I’m typing through Todays Addiction.
The best thing to do is ignore what I’m saying,find something on the XBox 360 that you know people will comment on and just write a line at the bottom asking people if they are having problem
s with the comment box.
As I say it looks fine when you log in to make a comment,then for some reason it expands.Sorry I can’t help anymore I.ve got to go out for a couple of hours.
Maybe the problem is if you use IE.
I use Firefox and there’s seems to be no problem.
I will ask the others and see what they say.
Thanks Dave.
Ok Carol,we’ll leave it at that,I’ll just have to live with it if its a problem with IE