According to a report, 80% of the emails sent to users are categorized as spam emails, generated by a group of hardcore spammers from North America and Europe. If you are really curious to find about the top 5 spammers, check below.
Rank 1: Canadian Pharmacy
Canadian pharmacy has been a long time spam operator occupying the first place. This spammer gang uses a new technology called botnet to send thousands of millions of spam per day with the help of its affiliates all around the world. The spammer belongs to United States but most of its affiliates belong to Eastern Europe.
Rank 2: Leo Kuvayev / BadCow
Leo Kuvayev / BadCow, an American/Russian spammer does software piracy spam, porn spam, pharmacy spam, phishing spam and many other types of spam. This spammer seems to be a master and uses enormous domain names to spam the victim. By randomly changing the spam content every 3 hours, this spammer remains undetected from the system. Some of his programs include BadCow, Pharmacy Express (PharmacyExpress) and TaiwanMedia. The spammer belongs to Russia Federation and its spam partners are Pavka/Artofit & Yambo Financials, Alan Ralsky and Ruslan Ibragimov/Send-safe.
Rank 3: HerbalKing
HerbalKing as the name suggests is the king of herbal spam. This spammer sends out tens of millions of spam per day related to body enhancements, body oils, and other herbal therapy products. HerbalKing having connections to India, seems to rival the Eastern European spam gangs. The spam operation is run from Australia and New Zealand by 2 brothers Shane Atkinson and Lance.
Rank 4: Vincent Chan / yoric.net
This Chinese spammer along with his brother runs several spam campaigns related to pharmacy, mortgages, ink cartridges, toner cartridges, watches and other OEM warez. They seem to have their own hosting servers popped up all over the China sending out massive volumes of spam every day. These spammers have seemed to gain a lot of experience, since they first abused Geocities in late October 2005.
Rank 5: Dark-Mailer
The Dark-Mailer is one of the most dangerous spammers around the world responsible for sending out illegal spam. Nikhil Kumar Pragji, the king of the illegal spamming underworld, also allows other spammers to operate, sending out endless amounts of spam around the globe.