China, the second biggest source of unsolicited e-mails,
says it will join UK and US-led international efforts to combat
spam.
China has announced it will join international enforcement
efforts against spam by adopting the London Action Plan on spam
enforcement collaboration.
The London Action Plan (LAP) was initially launched after a
conference on spam enforcement hosted jointly by the UK Office of
Fair Trading and the US Federal Trade Commission in London last
October.
LAP organises regular virtual conferences for its members to
exchange best practice and prepare joint actions against
spammers.
China is thought to be the second largest source of spam after
the US, sending out around 20% of the world’s spam. The majority of
it is distributed through “zombie” computers, whose owners have no
idea their machines are being used to distribute such messages.
China’s representative for LAP will be Union Network Beijing, a
body mandated by the Chinese Government to enforce its recent
anti-spam law and combat the spread of computer viruses.