An area where China does not lead the world:
Country rankings by SpamRankings.net.
China is only #13, but Brazil, Russia, and India (the other three BRICs)
are in the top five countries by total spam messages for October 2011.
U.S. is #10.
Vietnam came from behind a few months ago to place second for October.
Brazil had slumped as low as #6 in July, but has pulled back up into the leading pack.
After the top five, it’s a long-tail distribution indeed. Continue reading
Five years of the Anti-Phishing Working Group! Dave Jevans gave a retrospective, followed by country reports:
Japan: Pretending to be grandchild to get bank account transfer is popular. ATM scams are the most lucrative.
Russia: Second biggest global source of spam. Ecrime economy is ten times the si ze of the anti-ecrime industry, and that’s a problem.
Brazil: Most phishing is done locally. Is all organized crime.
I don’t want to go into too much detail, even though the bad guys don’t seem to need any help. APWG continues to climb the ecrimeware curve, catching up with th e miscreants.