Most Spam is Domestic, Study Says

Spammers aren't ducking antispam laws by operating offshore,

[henry0]

WASHINGTON -- Just under 86 percent of spam sent to 1000 enterprises between May and July came from U.S. spammers, contrary to assumptions that most spammers are outside the reach of U.S. law, according to a survey by CipherTrust.

Credit goes to: PCWorld

[goodroi]

US spammer? What does that mean? Are the computers and internet connections in the U.S. or are they hosted offshore? Where are the bank accounts? These are the items that really matter. If the person simply lives in the U.S. but keeps all the money and computers off shore, they can easily re-establish themselves with little trouble from the authorities.

[henry0]

The above is only an excerpt
Please read the full article on PCWorld
I do not have the answers; just a "FYI" I am passing around
regards
Henry

[encyclo]

Can you post the link to the story, henry0? It would make it easier to know what we're discussing ;)

If I understand it, by "domestic" you mean from the US. As for the sending of the spam, I believe the most common way is to use networks of compromised Windows PCs - which is utterly illegal anyway and was even before the current attempts at anti-spam legislation.

[henry0]

Here you go
I review about 50 links every morning for my news and found that one:
[pcworld.com...]

[TheDoctor]

The article is not the clearest about how it defines the figures, but I think it means that, although only 28 percent of the IP addresses responsible for spam sent to the surveyed enterprises between May and July were of servers based in the USA, 86 percent of the spam emails received came from these servers.

Is that how other people read it?

[henry0]

I do read it as you did
However, those 28% are so active that in pure volume
they sent 86% of the email bulk we received

If we agree on location, then shouldn't we be able to take action?

I always was under the impression that toying with multiple abroad servers was rendering the spam ungovernable; but in the States...?