Weekly analysis - 31st August 2013 to 7th September 2013

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07-Sep-2013

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 31st August 2013 to 7th September 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 31st August 2013 to 7th September 2013

During the week we reported a total of 4 phishing scams

4 or 100% 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)

0.39% Your PayPal Transaction Was Declined And What To Do Next !! alleged sender PayPal reported 2nd September 2013

0.35% Important Alert Action For Your Amazon Account . alleged sender Amazon reported 31st August 2013

0.34% Work from home alleged sender Adam Jones reported 1st September 2013

0.33% Update. alleged sender Yahoo reported 1st September 2013

0.33% URGENT SUPPLY, ORDER.... alleged sender Advertisement reported 2nd September 2013

0.32% Halifax - Online Banking - Home alleged sender Halifax reported 17th November 2011

0.31% AMAZON ACCOUNT STATUS: RESTRICTED alleged sender Amazon Shopping UK reported 31st August 2013

0.29% Please confirm your account information alleged sender Apple reported 30th August 2013

0.26% ALERT:PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR APPLE ACCOUNT INFORMATIONS alleged sender Apple reported 16th August 2013

0.25% YOUR ACCOUNT ACCESS HAS BEEN LIMITED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASON(S): alleged sender PayPal reported 14th August 2013

0.25% ACCESS TO ONLINE BANKING SERVICE alleged sender Lloyds TSB reported 21st August 2013

0.25% VERIFY THE FUNDS THAT WAS TRANSFERRED ON YOUR ACCOUNT alleged sender LloydsTSB Bank reported 19th August 2013

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
ADVERTISEMENT	1
PAYPAL	1
YAHOO	1
JONES	1
ADAM	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
WHAT	1
AND	1
NEXT	1
URGENT	1
ORDER....	1
SUPPLY,	1
DECLINED	1
WAS	1
HOME	1
FROM	1
UPDATE.	1
YOUR	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	2
ITALY	1
BRAZIL	1

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