Interesting stuff from MessageLabs. They recently released year-to-date spam rates for each US state. The top 10 most spammed US states are as follows:
1. Illinois
2. South Dakota
3. Oregon
4. New Hampshire
5. Wisconsin
7. Indiana
8. Texas
9. Pennsylvania
10. Alabama
MessageLabs scans three billion email connections per day and in June 2008, the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was 81.5%. The lowest percentage of spam going to a single state was 78.5 percent. The average spam level for the entire US reached 86 percent in June.
To download state-by-state spam results, Click here
To view a state-by-state map, Click here
MessageLabs Intelligence is a respected source of data and analysis for messaging security issues, trends and statistics. MessageLabs provides a range of information on global security threats based on live data feeds from our control towers around the world scanning billions of messages each week. For more information, visit www.messagelabs.com/intelligence.aspx.
