Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of January 29 2026)

Time From Harvest To First Spam	Slowest: 3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 19 hours, 1 min, 31 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.72% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	909.3 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	142,621,122 IPs 526,591,926 spam traps
Identified	912,715 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,004,715 spam servers 1,320,875 comment spammers 28,687,227 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,561,647 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,496 harvesters 25,583 spam servers 41 comment spammers 2,733 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 4,097 bad web hosts
Received	3,846,294,909 unique spam messages 351,996 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	333,515,000,000 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 (8.4%) #3 United States (7.5%) #4 Russia (6.6%) #5 India (5.6%)

Top-5 Countries For Dictionary Attacks (see top-25)	#1 China (10.6%) #2 India (10.1%) #3 Brazil (7.9%) #4 Russia (6.5%) #5 Vietnam (6.3%)

Top-5 Countries For Comment Spamming (see top-25)	#1 China (29.3%) #2 United States (16.5%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (3.9%)