Facts about spams/spammers – from Project Honey Pot

Very interesting highlights from the Project Honey Pot
– A billionth spam message received on December 10th
– “Fraud” spammers – those committing phishing or so-called “419” advanced fee scams – tend to send to and discard harvested addresses almost immediately.
– Whereas, “product” spammers tend to hold on to email addresses longer and send on average several messages a week to each address on their list.
– “There is a 21% decrease in spam on Christmas Day and a 32% decrease on New Year’s Day. Monday is the biggest day of the week for spam, while Saturday receives only about 60% of the volume of Monday’s messages.” Bad guys take vacations too!
– IRS is the second most hit entity which is used for frauding comsumers by spammers
– Though a lot of spams originate from foreign countries; there are more “bot” machines located in the US
– Most common blog-attacking spammers come from the USA
– On the lists of Best IT Security vs. Worst IT Security:
Best IT Security
#1 Finland
#2 Canada
#3 Belgium
#4 Australia
#5 Netherlands
#6 United States – We (our IT systems) are not as secure as that of Canada! :-{
#7 Norway
#8 New Zeland
#9 Sweden
#10 Estonia
Worst IT Security
#1 China
#2 Azerbaijan
#3 South Korea
#4 Colombia
#5 Macedonia
#6 Turkey
#7 Viet Nam
#8 Kazakhstan
#9 Macau
#10 Brazil
I was expecting to see Nigeria or Indonesia in this list, but they probably are on other reports.

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