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Is India the spam capital of the internet?

Owning several social websites we have to deal with spam on a daily basis nearly all of which originates from the Asia Pacific Network specifically India, this begs the question what does India actually offer the Internet aside from spam, inexpensive outsourcing and Shilpa Shetty?

First off this post is not an attack on all of India which would be unfair as i am sure there are many legitimate internet users and business’s in the country, statistics i was looking over today at WPscoop however shows around 90% of all spam submitted to the site originates from Indian IP’s. 90% is a huge percentage to originate from a single country and more interesting a single provider’s network TATA Communications, since WPscoop launched in August 2008 we have had thousands of spam submissions and looked back over our spam system stats to build a profile of origin.

Very little Spam at WPscoop actually makes it onto the website due to our fantastic detection system that learns as it goes, this however still does not deter a spammer from spending 30 minutes of there life submitting links manually to the site and typing ReCAPTCHA’s. That’s a lot of wasted time in life trying to get a quick backlink to a site that avidly monitors spam manually and automatically. Whats more amusing to me are the rouge SEO companies we get each day that try to submit the same spam multiple times under different names even after they have been alerted instantly that there submission has been detected as spam and will not be published.

After i looked at the stats on WPscoop i dropped a mail out to some friends who also own some social news type sites asking what the top Spam IP’s were on their own projects and lo and behold India was at the top of their list’s also. The main ranges that were the biggest offenders were IP’s starting with 58, 59, 121 and 122 with 121 and 122 being the most prolific used for spamming.

Thus my conclusion that in 2008/09 India is the Spam capital of the Internet unfortunatley.

More Info on the Asia Pacific Network: http://www.apnic.net/index.html you can also check IP’s from the site and learn about their abuse procedures.

This is an interesting article which is more directed towards email spam and lists the top spam countries by amout of spam they produce. http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Internet/Dubious-Achievement.html

Where does you spam originate from?

Tags: asia pacific spam, indian spam, spam