Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 21 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	143,466,659 IPs 528,977,834 spam traps
Identified	915,183 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,345,201 spam servers 1,329,142 comment spammers 28,772,393 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,695 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,604 harvesters 33,838 spam servers 65 comment spammers 4,707 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,094 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,507,844 unique spam messages 353,924 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	318,760,000,000 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 (10.1%) #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%)