Sophos reports that the United States, Russia and China may have accounted for 33.8% of all junk email (SPAM) in Q4 2007, yet the top 10 countries relaying the most spam per capita doesn't include any of them.

When the top three spam-relaying countries are considered in terms of population, the United States is in 64th position, Russia in 45th, and China plummets to 132nd. The following shows the top 10 countries based on spam emitted per capita:


The changing positions of other top spam-relaying countries when looking at them from a spam-per-person perspective are as follows:

• The United Kingdom drops from 9th to 50th


• Canada drops from 26th to 89th


• Japan drops from 32nd to 136th


• Australia drops from 33rd to 85th