Fwd: [Project Honey Pot] 1 Billion Spammers Served

[Owen Densmore]

A Honey Pot is a computer designed to trap bad guys, and to make  
available the signature of the bad guys for other protective  
services.  Project Honey Pot has just had their billionth spammer  
recorded!
   http://www.projecthoneypot.org/home.php

You might find their FAQ interesting, describing the attacks they look  
for:
   http://www.projecthoneypot.org/faq.php

Has any of us installed a Honey Pot page?

     -- Owen


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Project Honey Pot Team <[hidden email]>
> Date: December 15, 2009 7:00:24 AM MST
> To: Owen <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Project Honey Pot] 1 Billion Spammers Served
>
> Dear Owen:
>
> On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot  
> achieved a
> milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth  
> message was
> an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an  
> email
> address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than  
> just a
> single spam email, the billionth message represents the collective  
> work of
> you and tens of thousands of other web and email administrators like  
> you in
> more than 170 countries around the world. Together we have built  
> Project
> Honey Pot into the largest community tracking online fraud and abuse.
>
> To celebrate this milestone, we sifted through five years of data to  
> learn
> more about spam and the spammers who send it. As a small token of  
> thanks for
> your help, we wanted to share some of our more interesting preliminary
> findings. Click the following link for the Full Report:
>
> http://www.projecthoneypot.org/1_billionth_spam_message_stats.php
>
> Highlights include:
>
> - Monday is the busiest day of the week for email spam, Saturday is  
> the
>  quietest
> - 12:00 (GMT) is the busiest hour of the day for spam, 23:00 (GMT)  
> is the
>  quietest
> - Malicious bots have increased at a compound annual growth rate  
> (CAGR) of
>  378% since Project Honey Pot started
> - Over the last five years, you'd have been 9 times more likely to  
> get a
>  phishing message for Chase Bank than Bank of America, however  
> Facebook is
>  rapidly becoming the most phished organization online
> - Finland has some of the best computer security in the world, China  
> some
>  of the worst
> - It takes the average spammer 2 and a half weeks from when they first
>  harvest your email address to when they send you your first spam  
> message,
>  but that's twice as fast as they were five years ago
> - Every time your email address is harvested from a website, you can  
> expect
>  to receive more than 850 spam messages
> - Spammers take holidays too: spam volumes drop nearly 21% on  
> Christmas Day
>  and 32% on New Year's Day
> - And much more.....
>
> We have published it under the Creative Commons Attribution license,  
> so
> don't hesitate to share anything you find interesting. In the end, we
> couldn't have gathered this data without you.
>
> Thank you for all your help over the last five years. Here's to  
> wishing you
> happy holidays and a relatively spam-free New Year.
>
> Sincerely,
> The Project Honey Pot Team
>
> ==========
>
> To block all future requests:
> http://www.projecthoneypot.org/block_all_future_contact.php
>
> This message sent by:
> Project Honey Pot (http://www.projecthoneypot.org/)
> c/o Unspam Technologies, Inc. (http://www.unspam.com/)
> P.O. Box 57265 Murray, Utah
> 84157-0265  USA
>

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