Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of May 17 2026)

Time From Harvest To First Spam	Slowest: 3 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 20 hours, 1 min, 31 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 49 mins, 41 secs
Harvester Traffic	2.70% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters
Spams Sent	910.6 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	142,963,386 IPs 527,703,683 spam traps
Identified	913,865 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 109,135,025 spam servers 1,328,442 comment spammers 28,718,125 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,572,005 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,088 harvesters 22,599 spam servers 25 comment spammers 3,012 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 5,633 bad web hosts
Received	3,858,922,050 unique spam messages 1,085,087 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	326,040,000,000 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 (8.4%) #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 (29.1%) #2 United States (16.4%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (3.8%)