Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of October 20 2025)

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, 12 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	142,305,621 IPs 525,087,242 spam traps
Identified	911,509 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 108,842,504 spam servers 1,320,395 comment spammers 28,671,987 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,549,914 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,772 harvesters 39,758 spam servers 39 comment spammers 1,756 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 4,351 bad web hosts
Received	3,842,136,039 unique spam messages 229,551 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	337,415,000,000 spam traps

Top-5 Countries For Harvesting (see top-25)	#1 China (28.1%) #2 United States (22.6%) #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 (8.4%) #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 (6.5%) #5 Vietnam (6.3%)

Top-5 Countries For Comment Spamming (see top-25)	#1 China (29.2%) #2 United States (16.7%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (4.0%)