Weekly analysis - 18th January 2014 to 25th January 2014

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25-Jan-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 18th January 2014 to 25th January 2014

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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 18th January 2014 to 25th January 2014


During the week we reported a total of 17 phishing scams

15 or 88% 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)

1.25% Bank of America Alert: Thats New Required Verification Process From Bank of America Alert alleged sender Bank of America Alert reported 20th January 2014

0.48% Important Information About Your BT account (cell 13) alleged sender ebilling@bt.com reported 20th January 2014

0.42% Your NatWest Card Importante Notification ! alleged sender Natwest reported 19th January 2014

0.42% ACCOUNT VALIDATION alleged sender PayPal.com reported 20th January 2014

0.39% MINT.CO.UK - MINIMUM PAYMENT DUE alleged sender Mint Credit card reported 19th January 2014

0.37% ONLINE ACCESS HAS BEEN SUSPENDED alleged sender service@paypal.co.uk reported 21st January 2014

0.37% You Have One Unread Message alleged sender Barclays Bank reported 21st January 2014

0.36% IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS alleged sender Google Drive reported 18th January 2014

0.36% ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS!!..... alleged sender Google Docs noreply@google.com reported 21st January 2014

0.35% Tesco Credit Card alleged sender Tesco reported 19th January 2014

0.33% Our New Online Security Introduce. alleged sender Barclays Bank Plc reported 18th January 2014

0.32% You Have One Unread Message alleged sender Barclays Bank reported 22nd January 2014

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
NATWEST	6
BANK	5
AMERICA	2
EBILLING@BT.COM	2
CARD	2
BARCLAYS	2
SERVICE@PAYPAL.CO.UK	1
DOCS	1
NOREPLY@GOOGLE.COM	1
GOOGLE	1
ALERT	1
MINT	1

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	6
ACCOUNT	5
AMERICA	3
BANK	3
MESSAGE	3
NATWEST	3
CARD	3
HAVE	2
YOU	2
13)	2
IMPORTANT	2
INFORMATION	2

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	5
FRANCE	3
INDONESIA	2
THAILAND	1
ITALY	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1
GERMANY	1

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