Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of February 11 2026)

Time From Harvest To First Spam	Slowest: 3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 19 hours, 1 min, 31 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.71% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	909.3 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	142,649,515 IPs 526,730,089 spam traps
Identified	912,840 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,011,877 spam servers 1,320,933 comment spammers 28,689,155 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,563,006 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,904 harvesters 11,628 spam servers 40 comment spammers 1,923 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,677 bad web hosts
Received	3,846,808,867 unique spam messages 257,533 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	331,760,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.5%) #3 Spain (4.1%) #4 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 (7.5%) #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 (29.3%) #2 United States (16.5%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (3.9%)