Project Honey Pot
The Web's Largest Community Tracking Online Fraud & Abuse
Project Honey Pot is a free, distributed, open-source initiative that helps website administrators track and combat spam harvesters, comment spammers, and other online abusers. It operates a massive network of trap email addresses and monitors hundreds of millions of IPs to identify malicious actors. The community-driven platform provides data to help site owners stop fraud and abuse at scale.
Website owners install honeypot trap addresses on their sites; when harvesters or bots visit and collect these addresses, they are identified and logged in a shared community database.
website administrators and webmasters
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
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