Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of January 13 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	142,573,672 IPs 526,360,087 spam traps
Identified	912,556 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 108,981,552 spam servers 1,320,812 comment spammers 28,684,033 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,559,419 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	2,256 harvesters 33,000 spam servers 32 comment spammers 1,582 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 4,254 bad web hosts
Received	3,845,558,931 unique spam messages 302,812 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	334,815,000,000 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%)