Spam from Taiwan

TristanGrimaux writes "According to a recent study done by CipherTrust, two thirds of the world's spam is sent by Taiwan servers. The US follows with 24% and in a distant third is China with only 3% of the servers who actually sends the spam." The article cites easy access to broadband and lack of crackdown on offenders as the main contributing factors.

Hmm...

[blank89]

Instead of figuring out where most of the spam comes from, they should figure out which geographic location churns out the most humorous spam. It could be a world wide competition.

Overachievers

[Doc Ruby]

Taiwan makes more than 66% of the notebooks on which we read that spam, so they're actually overperforming on the content:reader ratio. I wish they'd get more into eBooks.

Must not lose!

[Umbral Blot]

Impossible! Go USA! Go USA! We can win the spam race!

Where's Nigeria?

[RetroRichie]

Prince Desmond Okotiebor Etete himself MUST account for at least 10% of all spam...

Tie One On

[tiktok]

Somedays I almost wish that some of this Taiwanese spam showed up in a character set I could read so at least I could have a good laugh at it, or at least learn how they are trying to extract money from illicit private bank accounts!

"Dear Sir or Madam,

This email may to you as a surprise, but I am Mr. Chen Liao, son of former Taiwanese president Lin Liao, who was murdered by ninjas, and I need your help recovering $25 million Taiwanese Dollars..."

Re:Taiwan China ...

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

>does consider Taiwan a rouge province

So Taiwan is actually Red China?

(I apologize. I transpose keys too. But that one was just irresistible.)

Made in Taiwan

[Joebert]

Spam, Made In Taiwan ?
Why doesn't that supprise me ?

How to block Taiwan?

[Yez70]

Ok, so how come all the spam blockers don't just block the entire Taiwanese IP range?

Anyone care to disclose the ranges? :)

It all makes sense now!

[KefkaTheMad]

It's true! My fiance is from Taiwan, and she's always telling me that I need to 1NCREA5E MY P3RF0R|\/|ANCE 1N BEDD!!!!!