Illinois most spammed U.S. state
Annual spam report shows Illinois as the most spammed state in the union
The two most effective ways to reduce the amount of
spam arriving daily in your e-mail In-box: install spam filters, or move out of
Illinois.
MessageLabs has
released year-to-date spam rates for individual U.S. states, according to MessageLabs
Intelligence data. The top 10 most spammed U.S. states are:
* 1. Illinois
* 2. South Dakota
* 3. Oregon
* 4. New Hampshire
* 5. Wisconsin
* 6. North Carolina
* 7. Indiana
* 8. Texas
* 9. Pennsylvania
* 10. Alabama
MessageLabs
scans three billion e-mail connections per day and in June 2008, the global
ratio of spam in e-mail traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was
81.5 percent. The lowest percentage of spam going to a single state was 78.5
percent. The average spam level for the entire United States reached 86 percent in June.
To download state by state spam results, click here.
To view a state by state map, click here.
