I've seen a similarity in most of the SPAM mails I receive, that majority of them are sent from Hotmail accounts and specifically from hotmail.co.uk domain.
Another thing that I noticed is, the content of the mail claims to be from UK.
For example :
From :
Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd.
Samsung House 1000, Hillswood Drive, Chertsey,
Surrey KT16 0PS
Tel:+44-xxxxxxxxx, +44-yyyyyyyyyy
Email:[email protected]Dear XXX YYY,
We use this medium to congratulate you as one of our lucky winner of £450,000 Great British Pounds (G.B.P.) and 2 Samsung galaxy s6 edge+ .....
AND
MICROSOFT® CORPORATION
Cardinal Place
80-100 Victoria Street
London,SW1E 5JL
United KingdomPromo Code: MSW/5975/107/2016
Security Number: MSW16-2345401MICROSOFT ANNUAL AWARD
We wish to congratulate you on this note, for being part of our selected winners in our just concluded internal promotion draw this year, this promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of Microsoft products and its software services.
Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will become an active user to Microsoft products and its software services. Microsoft Corporation develops and markets software, services and hardware that deliver new opportunities, greater convenience and enhanced value to people's lives. We ran an online e-mail beta draw which your email address won Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (Ј950,000.00). We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners......
So the question is: Why all the spam from UK? Does the UK Law protects such spammers in some way? Or it's just a random choice for the SPAMMERS?