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10 Most Spammed States

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Most email inboxes are filled with junk mail, but the residents of these ten states have it particularly bad. MessageLabs, a web security firm, scanned about three billion emails a day during the first half of 2008 to come up with their rankings. Click on to find out which states get the most spam emails.



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10. Alabama

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87.0 percent of emails are spam.



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9. Pennsylvania

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87.1 percent of emails are spam.



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8. Texas

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87.5 percent of emails are spam.



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7. Indiana

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87.6 percent of emails are spam.



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6. North Carolina

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88.0 percent of emails are spam.



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5. Wisconsin

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88.2 percent of emails are spam.



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4. New Hampshire

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88.5 percent of emails are spam.



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3. Oregon

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89.1 percent of emails are spam. 



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2. South Dakota

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90.9 percent of emails are spam.



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1. Illinois

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92.1 percent of emails are spam.



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