Spam is becoming a greater threat as it now frequently contains a variety of malicious attachments and links to infected websites. Europe took the lead as the top source of spam, while the percentage of spam coming from Latin America fell quite considerably. Europes contribution to global spam increased to 23.1%, up from 16.2% in the second quarter. The lowest recorded volume of spam for the third quarter of 2010 was 76.9%, while a peak of 90.1% was observed on 25 July and again on 31 July.”]
Source: https://securelist.com/spam-in-the-third-quarter-of-2010/36330/