Weekly analysis - 26th July 2014 to 2nd August 2014

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02-Aug-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 26th July 2014 to 2nd August 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 26th July 2014 to 2nd August 2014

During the week we reported a total of 13 phishing scams

11 or 85% 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)

0.77% [iTunes] Credit Card - Decliend =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=9C=94_?= alleged sender Apple reported 25th July 2014

0.72% YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE LIMITED ! alleged sender PayPal reported 25th July 2014

0.72% Account Review alleged sender NationWide reported 25th July 2014

0.61% VALIDATE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION APPLE ! CASE : 958 alleged sender Apple Inc. reported 25th July 2014

0.59% NEW MESSAGE FROM HALIFAX CUSTOMER SERVICE. alleged sender Halifax reported 11th July 2014

0.58% IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM HALIFAX BANK CUSTOMER SERVICE alleged sender Halifax reported 17th July 2014

0.58% IMPORTANT NATWEST NOTIFICATION alleged sender Natwest reported 18th July 2014

0.56% VERIFY YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT INFORMATION alleged sender Paypal reported 11th July 2014

0.56% Urgent Update Required. alleged sender MBNA reported 24th July 2014

0.54% You have a new message. 208.43.198.157 alleged sender paypal reported 1st August 2011

0.53% your apple account has been limited ! alleged sender apple reported 23rd July 2014

0.52% NATWEST alleged sender National reported 23rd July 2014

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

Keyword Frequency

HALIFAX 2
CUSTOMER 2
PAYPALSERVICE 1
MICROSOFT 1
1
BARCLAYS 1
ONLINE 1
BANKING 1
LIMITED 1
NATWEST 1
EUROPE 1

APPLE 1

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

Keyword Frequency

ACCOUNT 7
YOUR 7
NEW 2
PAYMENT 2
ONLINE 2
SECURITY 2
UPDATE 2
BEEN 2
HAS 2
HALIFAX 1
DISCOVER® 1

ABOUT 1

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

Keyword Frequency

UNITED STATES 9
CZECH REPUBLIC 1
UNITED KINGDOM 1
FRANCE 1

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