Project Honeypot – 1 Billion Spammers Served and more…

Project Honeypot published this nice article which contains all kind of data and graphics here:
1 Billion Spammers Served

All nice and shiny, but I have a problem with this graphic:
Most phished brands
Notice that PayPal is about 1% …

Our data, gathered by the URLCheck service, gives us completely different numbers:

So, don’t believe everything what you see…


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