Weekly analysis - 25th December 2010 to 1st January 2011

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01-Jan-2011

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 25th December 2010 to 1st January 2011

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Over the last week MillerSmiles has received many scams from the public and through its HoneyTrap scam detection system. Below we provide an analysis of the scams we have received for the week of 25th December 2010 to 1st January 2011


During the week we reported a total of 73 phishing scams

61 or 84% of these scams linked to websites that were still online and live, ready to capture personal data, when we reported them

The 12 most popular scams as defined by search engine visits to our archive of scams we reported this week and in previous weeks were (as percentage of all visits to the site)

0.59% New Message from Downey Savings Fraud Department alleged sender Downey Savings reported 29th July 2007

0.56% [Bulk] Account Maintenance alleged sender Chase reported 19th December 2010

0.48% Account Ownership Validation alleged sender Egg Internet Banking reported 28th December 2010

0.32% Halifax Online - Message alleged sender Halifax reported 26th December 2010

0.32% Lloyds TSB has been receiving complaints alleged sender LloydsTSB reported 22nd December 2010

0.3% Bank of America Alert: Suspicious Activity alleged sender Bank of America Alert reported 26th December 2010

0.29% Deposit Transaction Notification on Account. alleged sender LloydsTSB Online. reported 25th December 2010

0.29% Please Update Your Billing Information alleged sender AOL reported 25th April 2010

0.28% UPDATE AND VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION alleged sender Halifax reported 24th December 2010

0.28% Bank of America Alert: Access to your account was limited ! alleged sender Bank of America reported 25th December 2010

0.28% Online Banking with Halifax alleged sender Halifax reported 25th December 2010

0.26% Chase Secure E-mail Service Update alleged sender 2010 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 201 reported 21st July 2010

 

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive

Keyword	Frequency
BANK	13
HALIFAX	11
NATWEST	10
ONLINE	9
LLOYDS	9
PLC	7
VISA	6
HSBC	6
BANKING	6
TSB	5
LLOYDSTSB	5
ABBEY	4

 

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive

Keyword	Frequency
ACCOUNT	24
YOUR	17
MESSAGE	16
ONLINE	14
YOU	13
HAVE	12
SECURITY	10
ALERT	8
UNREAD	8
BANK	8
ING	7
BANKING	7

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