Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of November 17 2025)

Time From Harvest To First Spam	Slowest: 3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 19 hours, 1 min, 31 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.72% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	909.2 messages to the average spam trap address 4,019,502 messages sent to the most targeted trap
Spam Servers Per Harvester	119.4 spam servers per harvester
Monitoring	142,410,521 IPs 525,588,365 spam traps
Identified	911,925 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 108,896,696 spam servers 1,320,589 comment spammers 28,676,491 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,553,802 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,256 harvesters 23,502 spam servers 46 comment spammers 2,319 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 5,221 bad web hosts
Received	3,843,192,392 unique spam messages 285,805 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	337,155,000,000 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 (7.6%) #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 (3.9%)