Weekly analysis - 1st June 2013 to 8th June 2013

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08-Jun-2013

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 1st June 2013 to 8th June 2013

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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 1st June 2013 to 8th June 2013


During the week we reported a total of 25 phishing scams

20 or 80% 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)

0.21% Important Notice : Account has been suspended ! alleged sender Yahoo! reported 4th June 2013

0.18% Please sign in your USAA account, verify and update your profile immediately alleged sender USAA reported 23rd December 2005

0.17% Your account has been disabled alleged sender Earthlink reported 7th January 2012

0.13% RECEIPT FOR YOUR PAYMENT TO SALES@SKYPE.COM alleged sender PayPal reported 18th April 2011

0.13% Your Bank of America account may have been accessed from an unauthorized computer! alleged sender Bank of America reported 15th November 2009

0.12% Frage zum Artikelnummer 161025885534 alleged sender eBay reported 30th May 2013

0.11% CLICK HERE TO RE-OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT alleged sender Barclays reported 3rd June 2013

0.11% Your security is important to us alleged sender Natwest Bank Alerts reported 3rd June 2013

0.11% Message ID03498735884 alleged sender NatWest reported 1st June 2013

0.11% Online Access Has Been Suspended! alleged sender PayPal reported 5th June 2013

0.1% Your PayPal account has been limited alleged sender PayPal reported 3rd June 2013

0.1% Please confirm your information on our database alleged sender Wal-Mart reported 8th October 2007

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
BARCLAYS	7
BANK	5
PERSONAL	4
LLOYDS	3
TSB	3
BUSINESS	3
PAYPAL	3
PLC	2
ALERTS	2
NATWEST	2
WILLIAMS	1
O2SHOP	1

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	14
ACCOUNT	11
SECURITY	6
HAS	5
BEEN	5
ALERT	4
BARCLAYS	3
IMPORTANT	3
NOTIFICATION	3
CARD	2
BLOCKED	2
BANK_	2

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	9
LATVIA	5
THAILAND	2
BRAZIL	2
UNITED KINGDOM	2
POLAND	2
MALAYSIA	1
FRANCE	1
SPAIN	1

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