Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 20 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	912.2 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	143,461,777 IPs 528,969,173 spam traps
Identified	915,177 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,342,225 spam servers 1,329,140 comment spammers 28,771,844 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,633 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,580 harvesters 32,821 spam servers 79 comment spammers 4,593 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,056 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,485,890 unique spam messages 351,915 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	318,890,000,000 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 (10.2%) #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%)