Tuesday, 14 October 2008

India Seventh Largest Spam Sender Globally

According to Trend Micro, a provider of Internet content security, India is the leader among Asian countries in spam, accounting for more than 4 percent of the total global spam.

India is the 7th largest spam sender in the world and is ahead of other Asian countries such as China (3.39 percent), Republic of Korea (2.57 percent) and Thailand (2.04 percent).

Globally, the Russian Federation heads the list of spammers accounting for more than 11 percent of total spam, followed by the United States of America at 9.36 percent. Trend Micro reports that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia India and China) together account for around 20 percent of all spam.

According to Trend Micro, an electronic message is spam if: the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients; and the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent; and the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.

“Most spam today is to advertise ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes and similar dubious products. Starting off being a small irritant that most enterprises used to ignore, spam today has taken the shape of a huge calamity. Enterprises not having a policy to curb spam will eventually see their profitability and productivity being affected,” said Niraj Kaushik, Country Manager – India & SAARC, Trend Micro.