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Spain was the country that received the most 'spam' during the second quarter of 2020, with 9.28 percent of the total

of these threats, while in the ranking of issuers it was ranked seventh.

As was the case in previous periods, Spain continues to lead the ranking of spam target countries (9.28 percent), with an

increase of half a percentage point over the previous quarter

, according to data from the cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

The second place is still for

Italy

(6.38 percent), followed by

Russia

(5.82 percent),

United Arab Emirates

(5.36 percent) and

Germany

(5.26 percent).

Regarding the countries that emit spam, the ranking remains practically identical with respect to the first quarter.

Russia (26.07 percent) follows in first place, with an increase of 3.6 percentage points,

followed by Germany (13.97 percent).

They are followed by the

United States

(11.24 percent), whose contribution to the global flow of spam decreased slightly;

China (7.78 percent) remains in fourth position.

Behind are the Netherlands (4.52 percent), France (3.48 percent) and

Spain (seventh, with 2.98 percent

).

In the second quarter of 2021, amid continued disruption to supply chains and mail services, cybercriminals continued to take advantage of this to

steal money and credit card data

.

Since last year, scammers have been taking advantage

of package delivery problems

to convince users to click on malicious email links.

In the second quarter of 2021, not only has this trend continued, but cybercriminals have become more adept at personalizing their spam submissions.

Users saw an increase in the number of

invoice messages in different languages ​​requesting money

for anything from customs duties to shipping costs.

These emails often lead victims to fake websites, where they risk not only losing money, but also putting their bank card details at risk, as Kaspersky has warned.

Cybercriminals also dared this quarter with a new modality:

websites that offered the possibility of buying packages that could not reach their recipients

. These websites were set up like a lottery. Users did not know the contents of the package. They bid based on the weight of the package which, if they 'won', never arrived, not even after paying the winning bid.

Another new trick from this last quarter consisted

of spamming WhatsApp requesting small amounts of money

. These scams responded to different schemes. One asked users to take a survey on WhatsApp and send messages to various contacts to receive a prize. Another claimed that users had already won a grand prize and that all they had to do to collect it was pay a small amount.

Another scam took advantage of the debate around

WhatsApp's

new privacy policy

that allowed it to share information with Facebook

.

Cybercriminals created bogus websites that invited users to a WhatsApp chat, and by clicking on the link to the chat room, the potential victim landed on a fake Facebook login page and risked giving their personal information.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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