Having received their 1 billionth spam message, Project Honey Pot has released some interesting stats:
www.projecthoneypot.or..._stats.php

Project Honey Pot wrote:

Highlights include: - Monday is the busiest day of the week for email spam, Saturday is the quietest - 12:00 (GMT) is the busiest hour of the day for spam, 23:00 (GMT) is the quietest - Malicious bots have increased at a compound annual growth rate CAGR) of 378% since Project Honey Pot started - Over the last five years, you'd have been 9 times more likely to get a phishing message for Chase Bank than Bank of America, however Facebook is rapidly becoming the most phished organization online - Finland has some of the best computer security in the world, China some of the worst - It takes the average spammer 2 and a half weeks from when they first harvest your email address to when they send you your first spam message, but that's twice as fast as they were five years ago - Every time your email address is harvested from a website, you can expect to receive more than 850 spam messages - Spammers take holidays too: spam volumes drop nearly 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year's Day - And much more.....