Project Honey Pot gathers statistics on Internet robots and the spammers who sometimes use them to steal email addresses. Unspam.com revealed some of their stats:
Project Statistics (as of April 30 2007)
| Time From Harvest To First Spam |
Slowest: 2 years, 3 weeks, 1 hour, 10 mins, 7 secs Fastest: 1 sec Average: 2 weeks, 3 days, 23 hours, 58 mins, 57 secs Std Dev: 1 month, 1 week, 4 days, 7 hours, 28 mins, 32 secs |
| Spams Sent | 62.0 messages to the average spam trap address 15,415 messages sent to the most targeted trap |
Very impressive data, especially when you look at the average time (only 18 days!!!) it takes until a new email account receives spam.
