Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of October 12 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	143,577,074 IPs 529,214,728 spam traps
Identified	915,488 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,403,965 spam servers 1,329,352 comment spammers 28,781,428 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,581,986 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,100 harvesters 32,539 spam servers 60 comment spammers 3,577 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 2,753 bad web hosts
Received	3,873,091,501 unique spam messages 280,831 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	317,460,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.6%) #3 Spain (4.0%) #4 India (3.1%) #5 Great Britain (3.1%)

Top-5 Countries For Spam Sending (see top-25)	#1 China (10.5%) #2 Brazil (7.9%) #3 United States (7.8%) #4 Russia (6.6%) #5 India (5.7%)

Top-5 Countries For Dictionary Attacks (see top-25)	#1 China (10.6%) #2 India (10.1%) #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%)