Weekly analysis - 28th May 2011 to 4th June 2011

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04-Jun-2011

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 28th May 2011 to 4th June 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 28th May 2011 to 4th June 2011


During the week we reported a total of 48 phishing scams

42 or 88% 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)

0.25% Download New Version Of Skype ! More Free Talks alleged sender newsletter@enews.skype.com reported 31st May 2011

0.24% Receipt for your PayPal payment to surfermom2 alleged sender service@intl.paypaI.com reported 29th May 2011

0.2% Alert notification : New message from customer serivce alleged sender Lloyds TSB Bank Plc reported 4th November 2010

0.19% RECEIPT FOR YOUR PAYMENT TO SKYPE alleged sender PayPal reported 27th May 2011

0.19% Barclays Bank Plc alleged sender MR. THOMAS GLASGOW reported 29th May 2011

0.18% Natwest Bank: Security Alert alleged sender NATWEST BANK reported 28th May 2011

0.18% LLOYDS TSB CUSTOMER INFORMATION alleged sender Lloyds TSB Bank reported 29th May 2011

0.18% Halifax Online© (Account Update) alleged sender Halifax Online© reported 29th May 2011

0.18% Online Security at HSBC alleged sender HSBC reported 28th May 2011

0.17% You have changed your PayPal email address alleged sender PayPal reported 30th May 2011

0.17% [Bulk] ALERT -- Account Maintainance alleged sender Lloyds TSB reported 30th May 2011

0.17% Online Security Backup alleged sender Natwest Digital Banking reported 29th June 2010

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
LLOYDS	15
HALIFAX	9
TSB	9
BANK	8
PLC	6
WESTERN	3
UNION	3
ROYAL	2
MICROSOFT	2
NATWEST	2
ONLINE	2
NEWSLETTER@ENEWS.SKYPE.COM	2

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	14
ACCOUNT	14
LLOYDS	7
ALERT	7
ONLINE	6
NOTICE	5
BANK	5
BANKING	5
HALIFAX	5
UNION	4
NEW	4
WESTERN	4

 

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	27
(UNKNOWN COUNTRY?)	10
ARGENTINA	1
SPAIN	1
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	1
CYPRUS	1
ROMANIA	1
CANADA	1
NETHERLANDS	1
TAIWAN	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1
(PRIVATE ADDRESS)	1

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