Weekly analysis - 10th December 2011 to 17th December 2011

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17-Dec-2011

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 10th December 2011 to 17th December 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 10th December 2011 to 17th December 2011

During the week we reported a total of 35 phishing scams

27 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)

0.87% Barclays New Security Message Alert alleged sender BARCLAYS ONLINE BANKING reported 10th December 2011

0.86% LITTLEWOODS ACCOUNT BONUS alleged sender LITTLEWOODS reported 10th December 2011

0.86% Update Your Account alleged sender Microsoft reported 11th December 2011

0.85% Notification of Limited Account Access alleged sender PayPal reported 11th December 2011

0.81% Halifax Bank: We Detected Error While Updating Your Account ! alleged sender Halifax Online reported 10th December 2011

0.77% Re-activate and secure your account alleged sender Bank of reported 10th December 2011

0.76% Important Security Information alleged sender Santander Online Banking reported 12th December 2011

0.76% Secure Online Banking alleged sender Natwest Online Banking reported 12th December 2011

0.74% RE: Lizabeth alleged sender Grace Polak reported 12th December 2011

0.74% Lloyds TSB Internet Banking Alert alleged sender Lloyds TSB Alert reported 13th December 2011

0.74% Lloyds TSB Internet Banking Update. alleged sender Lloyds TSB reported 12th December 2011

0.74% You have changed your PayPal email address alleged sender PayPal reported 12th December 2011

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
BANK	11
CO-OPERATIVE	5
PLC	5
BARCLAYS	4
ONLINE	3
LLOYDS	3
PAYPAL	3
BANKING	2
HALIFAX	2
THE	2
P.L.C	2
MICROSOFT	2

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
ACCOUNT	9
YOUR	8
SECURITY	7
BANKING	7
INTERNET	5
UPDATE	5
ONLINE	5
***	4
ALERT	4
MESSAGE	3
IMPORTANT	3
NOTICE	3

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

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