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Not blaming BRIC countries here, but the really intense spamming started post-early internet. You can see the spike up in the early around 2003-4:

https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/




Those graphs are way too late. I was specifically thinking of the wave starting with the Canter and Siegel “Green Card” spam in 1994.




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