Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 19 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	143,456,284 IPs 528,958,722 spam traps
Identified	915,170 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,339,573 spam servers 1,329,126 comment spammers 28,771,424 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,582 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,596 harvesters 33,436 spam servers 63 comment spammers 4,766 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,080 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,463,042 unique spam messages 351,483 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%)