Congrats China! You’re now the world’s largest source of spam

Through the sheer power of numbers, China has been managing to beat the United States in quite a few areas in recent years. Now the Asian giant can add spam to that list, as China has now surpassed the US to become the world’s largest source of spam, congratulations! 

The spam situation in 2014 was much the same as it has been for many years now: Useless emails are still abundant, annoying, and wasteful. There was one change that happened in the last quarter, however: China eclipsed the U.S. as the biggest source of spam. Various countries have been crowned the biggest culprits before, including Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, and India, but the U.S. dominated the majority of last year. For the first three quarters, it was number one. In the fourth quarter, you had a one in six chance of getting a junk email relayed from a computer in China.