The government said about 5-6 per cent of the global spam or junk e-mails in 2011 originated from India. “According to international reports, the total e-mail traffic worldwide categorised as spam is about 75-80 per cent, in the year 2011. The share of spam e-mails originating from India is about 5-6 per cent of the total worldwide spam e-mail traffic,” Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

He added that though the Indian Government has not conducted any study regarding the misuse of Internet, various organisations across the globe have published reports on Internet security covering aspects like spam e-mails.

Junk mails from malware-infected computers, selling counterfeit or illicit goods, generally contain malicious links to another false website.