Indian authorities arrest six suspected email scammers just days after the country was named spam capital of the world.

Companies who send out spam texts are being warned that investigating them is a high priority

Tens of thousands of mobile phone Sim cards used to send spam texts are blocked by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Opening my e-mail reminds me of walking through the bazaar of a third world open air market—the pickpockets are everywhere. In the last 30 days I have received spam purporting to be from the Better Business Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service, the United States post office, the FBI, and most recently (this morning) even one from the AICPA—the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a group of which I am not a member. The subject line was "Termination of your Accountant Status" and the body of the email explained to me that my status as a CPA was about to be terminated as a result of my participation in the filing of a fraudulent tax return. I was directed to take immediate action by clicking on the link called "complaint." An eternal cynic and professionally paranoid, I did some research and determined that the logo of the AICPA was correct, as were the return addresses and phone numbers listed in the email.

India has become the top spam spewing nation on the planet in about 12 months, suggests a report by a computer security firm.