Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of April 22 2026)

Time From Harvest To First Spam	Slowest: 3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 20 hours, 1 min, 31 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.70% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	910.1 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	142,865,966 IPs 527,456,245 spam traps
Identified	913,636 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,089,157 spam servers 1,328,355 comment spammers 28,710,647 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,569,594 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,112 harvesters 23,239 spam servers 1,634 comment spammers 2,385 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 5,005 bad web hosts
Received	3,855,091,912 unique spam messages 687,809 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	328,185,000,000 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 (8.4%) #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 (6.6%) #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 (3.8%)