Caught my first harvester!
May 5, 2008
I have been using the services provided by Project Honeypot for sometime now, hoping to stop comment spam and email harvesting. I even wrote an addon so it can be used on Pixelpost Photoblogs. Today I received an email from Project Honeypot, it seems that one of my honeypots has caught its first unique harvester nobody has ever seen before.
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: 41.251.10.177).
For those of you who are unaware of what an harvester is, a nice explanation is given by Project Honeypot in their FAQ:
A harvester is a computer program that surfs the internet looking for email addresses. Harvesting email addresses from the Internet is the primary way spammers build their lists. Harvesters must connect to the Internet through an IP address. Project Honey Pot publishes the list of the top IP addresses used by harvesters.
If you want to join this project there are several addons for WordPress and, as mentioned earlier, there is even one for Pixelpost! 
