Weekly analysis - 19th April 2014 to 26th April 2014

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26-Apr-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 19th April 2014 to 26th 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 19th April 2014 to 26th April 2014

During the week we reported a total of 10 phishing scams

7 or 70% 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)

0.46% NATWEST OFFERS YOU A BONUS alleged sender Natwest reported 21st April 2014

0.46% Please Unflag Your Barclays Accounts alleged sender Barclays Bank Plc reported 21st April 2014

0.46% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY alleged sender Tesco reported 23rd April 2014

0.45% YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED . alleged sender Dear Client. reported 21st April 2014

0.42% YOUR MBNA/VIRGIN CARD.. alleged sender MBNA reported 18th April 2014

0.41% WARNING! SOME INFORMATION ON YOUR ACCOUNT APPEARS TO BE MISSING OR INCORRECT.? alleged sender Service Update reported 23rd April 2014

0.38% IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CHASE alleged sender Chase reported 18th April 2014

0.38% Safeguard Your Account alleged sender Natwest reported 22nd April 2014

0.36% Account Review alleged sender Nationwide reported 23rd April 2014

0.35% *** *** BARCLAYS.BANK.ONLINE.. alleged sender Barclays reported 24th April 2014

0.32% YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED . alleged sender Dear Client. reported 23rd April 2014

0.31% Revision to Your Amazon.co.uk Account alleged sender Amazon reported 16th April 2014

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
CLIENT.	2
BARCLAYS	2
DEAR	2
NATWEST	2
TESCO	1
APPLE	1
UPDATE	1
SERVICE	1
BANK	1
NATIONWIDE	1
PLC	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	6
ACCOUNT	5
TEMPORARILY	2
YOU	2
BEEN	2
***	2
SUSPENDED	2
HAS	2
SATISFACTION	1
CUSTOMER	1
INCORRECT.?	1
MISSING	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UKRAINE	1
CHINA	1
FRANCE	1
BRAZIL	1

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