Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of September 15 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	2.68% 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	119.5 spam servers per harvester
Monitoring	143,433,261 IPs 528,914,808 spam traps
Identified	915,126 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,326,873 spam servers 1,329,102 comment spammers 28,769,233 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,580,312 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,412 harvesters 32,144 spam servers 41 comment spammers 4,738 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 3,364 bad web hosts
Received	3,872,214,340 unique spam messages 487,588 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	319,475,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.5%) #3 Spain (4.1%) #4 India (3.1%) #5 Great Britain (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%)