20 Surprising Things Countries Are No. 1 At

Most spam: United States

The United States is ranked the worst spam country – as in having very weak anti-spam laws, leading to it becoming a safe haven for spam operations – by the Spamhaus Project, a global organization providing real-time spam activity information.

There are currently about 3,000 live spam issues originating in the country. China, the country with the second most, has around 2,700.