The Scam pages of Alexis Wilke

Emails for Sale!

Ever received an email saying that they had millions of emails for sale? Well... today I decided to do a little "research" on that and I created a couple charts as seen below.

Here we can see that the percent of emails is much larger in western countries. France is nearly 60% and the US is 57%. The western countries are between 30% and 60%. Asian countries are around 20%, except China and India that are really low: only 2%. But 2% of over 1 billion people is a lot of emails already (~20 million.)

Now, we can look at the population. Yes. 75% of the world is divived between India and China. China has an equivalent of 2/3^rd of the US population over India. It's simply scary. And note that Africa is not included. This shows you that the western world is really tiny (1% maybe? 8-) ).

Anyway... click on the graphs to download the Open Office spreadsheet and see the actual numbers. Obviously, I do not guarantee the numbers under the email column. The population, I got from the US census bureau and for many are estimates for 2008.