Weekly analysis - 11th February 2012 to 18th February 2012

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18-Feb-2012

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 11th February 2012 to 18th February 2012

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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 11th February 2012 to 18th February 2012


During the week we reported a total of 40 phishing scams

34 or 85% 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)

0.75% Important information about your account? alleged sender NatWest reported 12th February 2012

0.71% Alliance & Leicester New Security Message Alert alleged sender ALLIANCE&LEICESTER/SANTANDER reported 12th February 2012

0.68% YOUR ONLINE ACCESS HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED alleged sender eBay reported 15th February 2012

0.68% Howard Mirkin, your January alleged sender PayPal reported 12th February 2012

0.63% A new document has arrived in Online Banking. alleged sender Santander Online reported 11th February 2012

0.59% Cahoot: You have a new alert alleged sender Cahoot Team reported 15th February 2012

0.58% re: alleged sender Yahoo.com reported 11th February 2012

0.58% RESTORE YOUR ACCOUNT ACCESS alleged sender SANTANDER UK PLC reported 15th February 2012

0.57% Security Verification alleged sender Halifax reported 14th February 2012

0.57% Your Account Is About To Expire alleged sender NAB Internet reported 11th February 2012

0.56% Abbey Online Banking Security Update. alleged sender ABBEY BANK reported 15th February 2012

0.56% Your online Account is inactive. alleged sender Santander online Banking reported 13th February 2012

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
SANTANDER	9
BANK	6
ONLINE	4
PLC	3
BILLING	2
ABBEY	2
HALIFAX	2
WESTERN	2
ALLIANCE	2
PAYPAL	2
BANKING	2
TALKTALK	2

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	19
ACCOUNT	15
SECURITY	7
IMPORTANT	7
ONLINE	7
MESSAGE	5
YOU	4
HAVE	4
ALERT	4
FROM	3
NEW	3
UPDATE	3

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	24
GERMANY	2
ROMANIA	1
FRANCE	1
POLAND	1
IRELAND	1
MALAYSIA	1
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	1
VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH	1
SWITZERLAND	1
GREECE	1
ITALY	1

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