Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 17 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	143,444,829 IPs 528,935,204 spam traps
Identified	915,147 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,333,668 spam servers 1,329,109 comment spammers 28,770,410 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,436 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,440 harvesters 33,388 spam servers 46 comment spammers 4,772 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,258 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,323,411 unique spam messages 446,041 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	319,020,000,000 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%)