Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of October 16 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, 12 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.68% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	912.0 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	143,598,829 IPs 529,259,721 spam traps
Identified	915,569 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,416,015 spam servers 1,329,399 comment spammers 28,783,242 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,582,267 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,112 harvesters 32,345 spam servers 86 comment spammers 3,415 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 2,848 bad web hosts
Received	3,873,231,757 unique spam messages 294,980 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	317,070,000,000 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%)