Weekly analysis - 5th February 2011 to 12th February 2011

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12-Feb-2011

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 5th February 2011 to 12th February 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 5th February 2011 to 12th February 2011

During the week we reported a total of 147 phishing scams

113 or 77% 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)

0.6% Notice Alert (Your Halifax Account Has Been Temporarily Suspended) alleged sender Halifax Bank reported 1st February 2011

0.4% Your Lloyds Online Banking Account Needs Attention!!! alleged sender Lloyds reported 31st January 2011

0.36% Access to Halifax Online Banking Service alleged sender Halifax Online Banking reported 4th February 2011

0.3% NatWest Online Banking - Urgent Action Needed alleged sender NatWest reported 4th February 2011

0.3% New Message from Downey Savings Fraud Department alleged sender Downey Savings reported 29th July 2007

0.3% Chase Secure E-mail Service Update alleged sender 2010 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 201 reported 21st July 2010

0.27% Bank of America Alert: Your Account Information Changed alleged sender Bank of America reported 4th February 2011

0.24% VICTIM COMPENSATION alleged sender MRS. FARIDA MZAMBER WAZIRI reported 6th February 2011

0.24% Important Notice from Bank of America Billing Center alleged sender Bank of America reported 24th September 2007

0.24% Restricted account. alleged sender Co-operative online reported 6th February 2011

0.21% Online Security Error Notification. alleged sender Santander reported 6th February 2011

0.2% Frozen access on your PayPal account alleged sender PayPal reported 5th February 2011

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

Keyword Frequency

BANK 34
HSBC 31
NATWEST 12
HALIFAX 10
PLC 10
LLOYDS 9
ONLINE 8
CHASE 6
NATIONAL 6
SANTANDER 6
AMERICA 5

AOL 5

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

Keyword Frequency

ACCOUNT 64
YOUR 46
ONLINE 33
SECURITY 24
BANKING 23
IMPORTANT 18
BANK 18
UPDATE 17
ACCESS 17
ALERT 14
HSBC 14

HAS 13

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