What Project Honey Pot does is identify spammers that come to your site. What they do is pick up the IP addresses of computers that view your site and then "harvest" email addresses in which they spam.

There are different ways to help and with your participation, you are helping everyone on the internet defeat spam. With Honey Pot, you can set traps for these harvesters and/or you can collect suspicious IP addresses.

Harvesting email addresses is illegal. With your help, Honey Pot can track down spammers and work with law enforcement to prosecute them.

Help stop these penis enlargement emails and join Project Honey Pot.

Here are some statistics (as of January 26, 2008) that you might find interesting

Time From Harvest To First Spam
Slowest: 2 years, 9 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 4 hours, 29 mins, 37 secs
Fastest: 1 sec
Average: 1 week, 6 days, 8 hours, 24 mins, 32 secs
Std Dev: 1 month, 1 day, 3 hours, 41 mins, 32 secs

Harvester Traffic
7.56% of all honey pot visitors are harvesters

Spams Sent
70.9 messages to the average spam trap address
32,348 messages sent to the most targeted trap

Spam Servers Per Harvester
302.7 spam servers per harvester

Monitoring
11,388,458 IPs
22,287,825 spam traps

Identified
36,052 harvesters
10,911,346 spam servers

Active (This Week)
1,662 harvesters
764,975 spam servers

Received
49,742,163 unique spam messages
3,845,415 unique messages this week

Monitoring Capability
260,845,000,000 spam traps

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