Anti-Virus firm Sophos has revealed the top twelve spam-relaying countries for the second quarter of 2008, which puts the UK in 9th place accounting for 3.2% of all junk e-mail. The USA continues to top the chart with 14.9%, followed closely by Russia on 7.5%.

By June 2008 the level of spam had risen to 96.5% of all business email. Having risen from a figure of 92.3% in the first three months of the year, corporations are now facing the fact that only one in 28 emails is legitimate:


It's worth comparing these statistics to the same report last year, which can be viewed here. This shows that the UK has increased its SPAM contribution from 2.8% last year to 3.2% now, while the USA has reduced its relaying output from 19.6% to 14.9%! In fact quite a few counties, including China, have seen a reduction. Sadly Russia appears to be making up for the reductions by going from 3.1% to 7.5%.