Weekly analysis - 16th August 2014 to 23rd August 2014

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23-Aug-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 16th August 2014 to 23rd 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 16th August 2014 to 23rd August 2014

During the week we reported a total of 15 phishing scams

10 or 67% 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)

0.88% NOTICE OF CHANGES TO THE PAYPAL USER AGREEMENT ! alleged sender Service Paypal reported 16th August 2014

0.88% MBNA - NEW ASSIGNED CREDIT LIMIT alleged sender Customerservice@MBNA.co.uk reported 15th August 2014

0.87% Indebted for driving on toll road alleged sender E-ZPass Info reported 15th August 2014

0.85% JOB OPPORTUNITY ( BARE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY ) alleged sender Bare reported 15th August 2014

0.83% *** CACTUS *** review your account activity alleged sender NatWest reported 17th August 2014

0.82% MBNA - NEW ASSIGNED CREDIT LIMIT alleged sender Customerservice@MBNA.co.uk reported 14th August 2014

0.8% YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED alleged sender Paypal reported 17th August 2014

0.79% YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE LIMITED ! alleged sender Service Paypal reported 17th August 2014

0.79% YOU APPLE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED alleged sender Apple reported 13th August 2014

0.78% AMAZON : YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED .! 19/08/2014 01:46:55 alleged sender Amazon reported 19th August 2014

0.76% Account Confirmation alleged sender Amazon.com reported 19th August 2014

0.74% Your Account is Innactive alleged sender HSBC Bank reported 19th August 2014

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
BANK	3
HALIFAX	3
PAYPAL	3
ONLINE	2
NATWEST	2
BARCLAYS	2
HSBC	2
APPLE	1
	1
BANKING	1
SERVICE	1
AMAZON.COM	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
ACCOUNT	12
YOUR	10
HAS	3
BEEN	3
LIMITED	3
INNACTIVE	2
***	2
HALIFAX	2
YOU	1
BLOCKED	1
READY	1
TEMPORARELY	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	9
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF	2
NETHERLANDS	1
SINGAPORE	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1
CHILE	1

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