Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of July 18 2025)

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	2.74% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	909.7 messages to the average spam trap address 4,019,502 messages sent to the most targeted trap
Spam Servers Per Harvester	119.2 spam servers per harvester
Monitoring	141,776,588 IPs 521,875,995 spam traps
Identified	910,090 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 108,501,865 spam servers 1,319,982 comment spammers 28,654,131 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,537,964 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	4,524 harvesters 56,990 spam servers 31 comment spammers 3,153 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 5,298 bad web hosts
Received	3,838,184,067 unique spam messages 271,933 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	342,550,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.6%) #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 (8.4%) #3 United States (7.5%) #4 Russia (6.6%) #5 India (5.6%)

Top-5 Countries For Dictionary Attacks (see top-25)	#1 China (10.6%) #2 India (10.1%) #3 Brazil (7.9%) #4 Russia (6.5%) #5 Vietnam (6.3%)

Top-5 Countries For Comment Spamming (see top-25)	#1 China (29.2%) #2 United States (16.7%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (4.0%)