Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of January 18 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	2.72% 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	142,587,686 IPs 526,438,928 spam traps
Identified	912,612 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 108,989,519 spam servers 1,320,835 comment spammers 28,684,707 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,560,154 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,264 harvesters 33,292 spam servers 34 comment spammers 1,617 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 4,758 bad web hosts
Received	3,845,769,479 unique spam messages 291,760 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	334,230,000,000 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 (6.5%) #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%)