Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of March 08 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, 10 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	142,706,858 IPs 526,995,705 spam traps
Identified	913,100 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,025,694 spam servers 1,323,836 comment spammers 28,694,106 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,565,103 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,056 harvesters 11,123 spam servers 1,219 comment spammers 2,995 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 4,556 bad web hosts
Received	3,848,259,959 unique spam messages 500,010 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	329,420,000,000 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 (29.2%) #2 United States (16.5%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (3.8%)