Spam messages often come from illegitimate email addresses, and may contain explicit or illegal content. These emails often use scare tactics, contain typos and misleading information, and are sent in bulk from an anonymous sender.

Where does most spam email come from?

The statistics shows the most common sources of unsolicited commercial e-mails in the third quarter of 2020. During that period, 10.85 percent of global spam volume originated from IPs based in the United States whereas the largest source Russia accounted for 23.52 percent of global spam e-mail.

How do I find out where spam is coming from?

To track down spammers in your email, follow these steps in order:Look at the e-mail headers in the message.Follow the flow of Received headers backward from your ISP.Identify the owner of the last verifiable e-mail-handling server.Look for URLs and e-mail addresses in the contents of the spam.More items