Weekly analysis - 7th June 2014 to 14th June 2014

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14-Jun-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 7th June 2014 to 14th June 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 7th June 2014 to 14th June 2014

During the week we reported a total of 5 phishing scams

4 or 80% 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)

0.56% You have a new message. 208.43.198.157 alleged sender paypal reported 1st August 2011

0.39% Urgent Notification (Your Cahoot Bank Account Has Been Block) alleged sender Cahoot reported 27th April 2010

0.36% CASE BT-0225-199852 alleged sender CService@btinternet.com DnGMod reported 8th June 2014

0.35% YOUR PAYPAL HAS BEEN LIMITED alleged sender Paypal reported 7th June 2014

0.3% HSBC - Your Online Banking is about to expire alleged sender HSBC Bank reported 3rd August 2008

0.29% BT Planned Software Uprade alleged sender BT reported 9th June 2014

0.25% Message Updates. alleged sender Barclays reported 25th September 2008

0.23% Update For June 2014 alleged sender BT reported 7th June 2014

0.22% Access to Online Banking Service alleged sender NatWest reported 11th June 2014

0.21% PAYPAL ISSUE ; INFORMATIONS REQUIRED alleged sender PayPal reported 12th June 2014

0.16% O2 Online Bill alleged sender O2 reported 16th March 2006

0.14% YOUR APPLE ITUNES ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED alleged sender Apple reported 5th June 2014

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
NATIONS	1
ORGANIZATION	1
UNITED	1
PAYPAL	1
DNGMOD	1
NATWEST	1
CSERVICE@BTINTERNET.COM	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
REQUIRED	1
INFORMATIONS	1
ISSUE	1
CONFIRM	1
THE	1
ACCOUNT	1
CHANGE	1
PAYPAL	1
SERVICE	1
SOFTWARE	1
PLANNED	1
BT-0225-199852	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
GERMANY	2
HUNGARY	1
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1

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