Weekly analysis - 29th June 2013 to 6th July 2013

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06-Jul-2013

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 29th June 2013 to 6th July 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 29th June 2013 to 6th July 2013

During the week we reported a total of 7 phishing scams

5 or 71% 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)

0.48% YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED alleged sender Barclays Personal Banking reported 1st July 2013

0.35% BARCLAYS BANK NOTIFICATION SERVICE alleged sender Barclays reported 29th June 2013

0.24% Your card may be suspended alleged sender Eve reported 3rd July 2013

0.23% YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED alleged sender Barclays Personal Banking reported 29th June 2013

0.2% IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION: WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED NEW SECURITY MEASURES alleged sender Co-operative Bank reported 28th June 2013

0.19% IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR CUSTOMERS alleged sender NatWest reported 23rd June 2012

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

0.17% please verify the email address accociated with your Apple ID? alleged sender Apple reported 5th July 2013

0.15% Lloyds TSB Internet Banking Account Access Suspended alleged sender Lloyds TSB reported 4th September 2008

0.15% Microsoft E-mail Verification alleged sender customerservices@microsoft.com reported 20th June 2013

0.12% Customer Notice : 0x629EBDBA alleged sender Microsoft reported 5th July 2013

0.12% 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	4
BANKING	4
PERSONAL	4
APPLE	1
EVE	1
MICROSOFT	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
SUSPENDED	5
YOUR	5
ACCOUNT	3
NEW	3
MESSAGE	3
ACCESS	2
BEEN	2
HAS	2
WITH	1
ACCOCIATED	1
ID?	1
ONLINE	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	4
UKRAINE	1
FRANCE	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1

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