Your Honey Pot Caught A Harvester!

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A.D. --
Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here's something to be happy about -- today a Honey Pot you installed successfully identified a previously unknown Email Harvester (IP: 121.35.56.50). The Harvester was caught by your Honey Pot installed at: www.recumbentriders.org

You can find information about your newly identified harvester here.

Don't forget to tell your friends you made the Internet a little better today. You can refer them to Project Honey Pot directly from our website here.

About Project Honey Pot
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Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.

To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.

We collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. We also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law.

Additionally, we will periodically collate the email messages we receive and share the resulting corpus with anti-spam developers and researchers. The data participants in Project Honey Pot will help to build the next generation of anti-spam software.