Munich - German internet users are world champs in a category they'd be glad to lose. They receive more spam than anyone else - a fat 97.5 per cent of all e-mail messages received by German accounts in July were spam.

The figures were collected by Symantec, a security solutions provider. Other countries with similar rates of spam included the Netherlands (95.7 per cent) and the UK (93.6 per cent). Surfers in the US (86 per cent) and Canada (83 per cent) fared somewhat better.(dpa)