India leads world in spam emails

 BANGALORE, INDIA: India has emerged the king of spam mails, overtaking the United States.

According to a report by security firm Sophos, if you have a spam in your inbox, there is one in ten chance that it is from India.

The report has ranked the countries based on the amount of junk mails routed through computers in that particular nation. India with 100 million Internet users has the third highest internet users after the United States and China.

Though the penetration is high in the country there is a chance that experimentation by first time users could be one of the reasons for spams.

That has been reiterated by Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. He says India's rise up the chart of spam producers has been helped by the rapid growth of the web in the country. The inexperience of the many first-time net users in India had led many to fall victim to hi-tech criminals.

Also, lack of awareness on the use of malwares could be contributing to spams. Given the ease of use methods on social social networks, they are becoming easy way to spread junk messages.

Sophos says that over 9.3% of all junk mail travels through Indian computers. In second place is the US (8.3%) and South Korea (5.7%) is third.

The only way to curtail it would be to create awareness on installation of anti-virus software.