Project Honey Pot Statistics

Project Statistics (as of December 19 2025)

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	909.2 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	142,505,108 IPs 526,055,921 spam traps
Identified	912,347 harvesters 2,176,250 search engines 108,945,132 spam servers 1,320,718 comment spammers 28,681,363 dictionary attackers 37,248 rule breakers 1,557,163 bad web hosts
Active (This Week)	1,880 harvesters 30,982 spam servers 47 comment spammers 2,158 dictionary attackers 0 rule breakers 4,168 bad web hosts
Received	3,844,574,264 unique spam messages 296,184 unique messages this week
Monitoring Capability	335,140,000,000 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 (7.6%) #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 (16.6%) #3 Russia (9.9%) #4 Brazil (4.2%) #5 Ukraine (3.9%)