Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of August 31 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, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.69% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	912.1 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	143,353,856 IPs 528,766,017 spam traps
Identified	914,950 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,284,689 spam servers 1,329,034 comment spammers 28,760,986 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,579,434 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,572 harvesters 20,341 spam servers 43 comment spammers 3,356 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,192 bad web hosts
Received	3,871,372,714 unique spam messages 322,778 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	319,280,000,000 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 (8.0%) #3 United States (7.7%) #4 Russia (6.6%) #5 India (5.7%)

Top-5 Countries For Dictionary Attacks (see top-25)	#1 China (10.6%) #2 India (10.2%) #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%)