Weekly analysis - 12th April 2014 to 19th April 2014

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19-Apr-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 12th April 2014 to 19th April 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 12th April 2014 to 19th April 2014

During the week we reported a total of 7 phishing scams

4 or 57% 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)

0.6% Revision to Your Amazon.co.uk Account alleged sender Amazon reported 16th April 2014

0.59% Account Verification alleged sender BT Yahoo Mail reported 14th April 2014

0.59% Security Change To Your Online Banking Profile alleged sender REGIONS BANK reported 16th April 2014

0.53% RE: ATTENTION: ACCOUNT RESTRICTED alleged sender Linda Spells reported 14th April 2014

0.53% OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION FROM HALIFAX BANK alleged sender Halifax reported 12th April 2014

0.48% YOUR APPLE ID WAS USED TO SIGN IN TO ICLOUD ON AN IPHONE 5 alleged sender Apple reported 6th February 2014

0.48% Dear Westpac Customer, alleged sender Microsoft reported 13th April 2014

0.45% RE:SECURE THIS OFFER!!! alleged sender AKIN BADMUS reported 12th April 2014

0.36% Your question from an eBay member alleged sender eBay reported 12th April 2014

0.33% YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN FLAGGED ! alleged sender Barclays Bank PLC reported 11th April 2014

0.28% IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CHASE alleged sender Chase reported 18th April 2014

0.22% The important updates ! alleged sender www.apple.com reported 11th April 2014

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
BANK	1
AMAZON	1
CHASE	1
MBNA	1
REGIONS	1
MAIL	1
LINDA	1
SPELLS	1
YAHOO	1
MICROSOFT	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
ACCOUNT	3
YOUR	3
IMPORTANT	1
AMAZON.CO.UK	1
REVISION	1
PROFILE	1
MESSAGE	1
FROM	1
CARD..	1
MBNA/VIRGIN	1
CHASE	1
BANKING	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	5
AUSTRALIA	1
FRANCE	1

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