Project Honey Pot
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Project Honey Pot is a web based honeypot network which uses software embedded in web sites to collect information about IP addresses used when harvesting e-mail addresses for spam or other similar purposes such as bulk mailing and e-mail fraud. The project also solicits the donation of unused MX entries from domain owners.
In addition to collecting information which is made available on a 'top 25' list at periodic intervals, the project organisers also help various law enforcement agencies combat private and commercial unsolicited bulk mailing offences and overall work to help reduce the amount of spam being sent and received on the Internet. The information collected is also used in research and development of newer versions of the software to further improve the efforts of the group as a whole.
Project Honey Pot was founded and is managed by Unspam LLC. In addition to various law enforcement agencies the group affiliates with the Internet Law Group and ViaWest.
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- Official Project Honey Pot web site
- Official Unspam LLC web site
- Current list of the top spam harvesters as identified by Project Honey Pot
- Current list of the top spam mail servers as identified by Project Honey Pot
- Current list of the top spam dictionary attackers as identified by Project Honey Pot
