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Project Honey Pot: 1 Billion Spam Messages
And counting...

Project Honeypot says they've just received their one billionth spam message: an IRS phishing scam sent to an e-mail address harvested nearly two years ago. The project started in 2004, and includes tens of thousands of network admins from over 170 countries who spend their time tracking online fraud. According to the project announcement, they estimate that for every e-mail Project Honeypot gets, the same message goes out to 125,000 real victims. As such, 125 trillion spam messages have been sent to users since the project began tracking. To celebrate the milestone, they've authored an interesting report exploring in-depth spam and scam statistics including where they come from and who they're targeting.

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FreedomBuild
Well done is better than well said
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join:2004-10-08
Rockford, IL

FreedomBuild

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Missing emails sent

I was wondering where my email was going to Comcast...I jest of course but sometimes I wonder

TSI Gabe
Router of Packets
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join:2007-01-03
Gatineau, QC

TSI Gabe

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link

Hey, your "interesting report" link is probably wrong.