Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 24 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	2.68% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	912.1 messages to the average spam trap address 4,019,502 messages sent to the most targeted trap
Spam Servers Per Harvester	119.5 spam servers per harvester
Monitoring	143,484,024 IPs 529,014,837 spam traps
Identified	915,242 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,354,323 spam servers 1,329,182 comment spammers 28,773,665 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,971 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,748 harvesters 33,239 spam servers 96 comment spammers 4,075 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 2,926 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,584,564 unique spam messages 260,725 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	318,825,000,000 spam traps

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

Top-5 Countries For Spam Sending (see top-25)	#1 China (10.5%) #2 Brazil (8.0%) #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 (10.1%) #3 Brazil (7.5%) #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 (3.7%)