Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 11 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	143,409,274 IPs 528,871,812 spam traps
Identified	915,097 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,314,471 spam servers 1,329,072 comment spammers 28,766,962 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,141 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,516 harvesters 29,109 spam servers 34 comment spammers 6,019 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,158 bad web hosts
Received	3,871,976,792 unique spam messages 375,023 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	319,735,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.5%) #3 Spain (4.1%) #4 Great Britain (3.1%) #5 India (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%)