Weekly analysis - 3rd August 2013 to 10th August 2013

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10-Aug-2013

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 3rd August 2013 to 10th August 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 3rd August 2013 to 10th August 2013

During the week we reported a total of 16 phishing scams

13 or 81% 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)

0.28% Alert:Please Confirm Your Apple Account Informations alleged sender Apple reported 3rd August 2013

0.23% YOUR ONLINE BANKING ACCOUNT HAS BEEN CREDITED IN YOUR FAVOR. alleged sender Yahoo.com reported 8th August 2013

0.23% Account Issues - Multiple Account log in Error alleged sender Nationwide reported 3rd August 2013

0.21% ACCOUNT ACCESS BLOCKED alleged sender Barclays Personal Banking reported 4th August 2013

0.21% Account Access Blocked alleged sender Barclays Personal Banking reported 5th August 2013

0.18% ACCOUNT ACCESS BLOCKED alleged sender Barclays Personal Banking reported 6th August 2013

0.16% NEW MESSAGE alleged sender Scottt Mills reported 7th August 2013

0.15% Nationwide - Important Updates alleged sender Nationwide reported 6th August 2013

0.15% ACCOUNT REVIEW UPDATE. alleged sender Barclays Personal Banking reported 6th August 2013

0.15% ACCOUNT SUSPENDED alleged sender Barclays Personal reported 7th August 2013

0.15% APPLE ONLINE ACCESS ACTIVATION alleged sender Apple reported 2nd August 2013

0.14% 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	10
PERSONAL	8
BANKING	7
BANK	2
PAYPAL	1
ONLINEBANKING@LLOYDSTSB.CO.UK	1
YAHOO.COM	1
SCOTTT	1
NATIONWIDE	1
CHASE	1
MILLS	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
ACCOUNT	12
YOUR	4
BLOCKED	3
ACCESS	3
MESSAGE	2
INFORMATION	2
NEW	2
MEASURE	1
DETECTED	1
CONFIRMATION	1
WERE	1
FAVOR.	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	5
INDIA	5
UNITED KINGDOM	1
ECUADOR	1
NETHERLANDS	1
HUNGARY	1
CHINA	1
AUSTRIA	1

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