70% of e-mail from Asia 'spam'

Almost 70% of all electronic mail from Asia is "spam", or unsolicited advertisements, an anti-virus firm said on Friday.

The Philippines had the worst record with spam making up 88% of all e-mails, Symantec Corp said in excerpts of its Internet Threat Security Report released here.

The average percentage of e-mails sent from the Asia-Pacific region that were spam was 69%, the report added.

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