Here is an interesting little report on where email spam originates, and where all those Web sites in the spam are located.
As it turns out, most email spam originates in the United States, but most of the Web server links that the spammers want you to click on are in....China.
Why, you ask? The email starts in the U.S. because we Americans have this terrific entrepreneurial spirit. In other words, it is easy to start a spam business here. In most other parts of the world, it takes months and months and a ton of red tape.
The servers, though, are located in China because that country still has a pretty sturdy Cold War attitude toward certain kinds of international law. What I mean is that even if you can identify the Web site selling enlargement products, you are not likely to have much success prosecuting the site or shutting it down if it is in Communist China.
China also happens to be the worst copyright violator in the world.
Just another example of the global economy at work.