Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of July 16 2026)

Time From Harvest To First Spam	Slowest: 3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 21 hours, 1 min, 31 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.69% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	912.0 messages to the average spam trap address 4,019,502 messages sent to the most targeted trap
Spam Servers Per Harvester	119.4 spam servers per harvester
Monitoring	143,167,040 IPs 528,284,976 spam traps
Identified	914,456 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,215,882 spam servers 1,328,804 comment spammers 28,742,546 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,576,898 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,544 harvesters 12,540 spam servers 48 comment spammers 2,641 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,301 bad web hosts
Received	3,868,685,611 unique spam messages 323,608 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	321,815,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.5%) #3 Spain (4.1%) #4 Great Britain (3.1%) #5 India (3.1%)

Top-5 Countries For Spam Sending (see top-25)	#1 China (10.5%) #2 Brazil (8.2%) #3 United States (7.7%) #4 Russia (6.6%) #5 India (5.7%)

Top-5 Countries For Dictionary Attacks (see top-25)	#1 China (10.6%) #2 India (10.2%) #3 Brazil (7.7%) #4 Russia (6.6%) #5 Vietnam (6.3%)

Top-5 Countries For Comment Spamming (see top-25)	#1 China (29.1%) #2 United States (16.4%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (3.8%)