Richard Cox of Spamhaus, the anti-spam research firm blamed the government as well as UK’s major ISPs like Orange, Bulldog and BT for the security threats posed by increasing spam crisis in the UK. Although, spam remains a global issue and no permanent solution has ever been found by the anti-spam research bodies or ISPs to prevent the spam, the actions so far taken by the ISPs or government have been on slow phase, the Times online quoted Richard Cox as saying.

“There has been minimal activity by many internet service providers, all of whom are blaming the dubious legal situation of spam," Richard said.

Spammers usually hack a computer at a remote location using some malware like Trojan virus and illegally use such hacked computers for relaying spam across the internet. As many users may be unaware of their computers being used as spam relaying centres, the broadband providers are in a better position to monitor the things happening over their lines. The past shows only a few broadband service providers have taken responsibility for such things and have acted to prevent the spread of scam in large scale. This is not a uphill task for ISPs to watch out for their customers who could be hacked to send spam, considering the sophisticated monitoring systems they have.

Richard Cox has also demanded stronger actions from government that can curb spam to minimum level:

“The spam may come from Bulgaria but if its controlled by somebody in Russia and paid for by someone in the US - who do you prosecute, and in which country? How do you get the evidence into the right country? We're building on this but it's a very slow process."