The US is home to the greatest amount of information perverts, based on research.

The research Where Is Your Information (pdf) shows more American dark internet lurkers had viewed allegedly 1568 valid private details, and credit card and social security numbers in a spreadsheet than some of the other 22 states where snoops’ links were followed.

The experiment began with a phishing scam where the spreadsheet was offered from a BitGlass’ proxy on a dark web service for downloading. As the spreadsheet was downloaded it was smacked with a tracking watermark that telephoned home online with the would be scammer’s IP address, user names, and device types.

It was subsequently disperse to other file sharing websites where it was downloaded and after resold by unscrupulous scammers.

VPNs based there, or Belgium users, clocked the next top source for links buying or seeing the details that was posted to be able to track how fast and way the data would go after an escape that was supposed.

British users were dull, while New Zealand punched above its weight defeating Russia and Turkey to claim 13th standing, coming in eighth place.

Australia was absent, perhaps suggesting the convict colony.

BitGlass’ proprietary monitoring mechanics stayed when the spreadsheet was duplicated elsewhere, or “mutilated”.