28 January 2008 - 5:27Web Form Spam (Link Spam) Statistics

Protectwebform carried out its own research in the field of form-spam. During many months we analyzed spam messages, which were entered in forms, provided by our company. As a result of analysis of these messages and sender IP-addresses you can see TOP 14 Spam-Topics and TOP 20 Countries-spam-distributors. And then follow top keywords for 5 top Spam-Topics.

Regarding countries-spam-distributors, the leading position is taken by USA, having 38 % of overall amount of spam-messages. Next, with a big lag, comes China with 5.3%, Ukraine with 4.7% and Russia with 3.8%. From European countries only Spain – 3.2%, Germany - 2.8% and Italy – 1.7% got into the TOP.

As for the most popular spam-message topics, the first place is occupied by “Drugs and Medications” which covers 24.7% of all spam-phrases. Silver medalist is “Finance” with 16.6%. These are the ultimate leaders. Other popular topics are “Phones & Ringtones” – 6.8%, “Adult” – 5.6% and “Gambling” – 4.2%.

Spam-messages distribution into topics was implemented in the following way. Using http://dir.yahoo.com/ we classified spam-phrases, distributing them into directories, and then we grouped derived directory names, thus determining general topics.

Drugs & Medications

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Finance

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Gambling

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Phones & Ringtones

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Adult

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