Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 30 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	143,516,074 IPs 529,078,380 spam traps
Identified	915,313 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,371,875 spam servers 1,329,266 comment spammers 28,776,642 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,581,344 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,864 harvesters 32,341 spam servers 148 comment spammers 4,276 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 2,728 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,712,965 unique spam messages 152,411 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	318,435,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.5%) #3 Spain (4.0%) #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 (7.8%) #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%)