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Weekly analysis - 13th September 2014 to 20th September 2014

Weekly analysis - 13th September 2014 to 20th September 2014


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20-Sep-2014

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 13th September 2014 to 20th September 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 13th September 2014 to 20th September 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)

  • 0.69% Cancelled: Your Donation From Mr Charles Feeney alleged sender CHARLES FEENEY reported 17th September 2014

  • 0.68% Online Banking and Access services! alleged sender Lloyds Bank reported 17th September 2014

  • 0.67% Your Account is Limited alleged sender PayPal reported 17th September 2014

  • 0.62% *** CACTUS *** You have added keithsandland@hotmail.com as a new email address for your PayPal account. alleged sender PayPal reported 18th September 2014

  • 0.53% ITUNES ACCOUNT WAS BEEN FROZEN alleged sender iTunes reported 18th September 2014

  • 0.53% Notice Of Paypal. alleged sender PayPal reported 18th September 2014

  • 0.51% RBC Royal Bank Online Banking Important Service Message alleged sender RBC reported 18th September 2014

  • 0.49% YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOW LOCKED, YOU HAVE TO UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION alleged sender Pay.Pal Inc reported 19th September 2014

  • 0.48% You have a new message. 208.43.198.157 alleged sender paypal reported 1st August 2011

  • 0.43% ALERT - ONLINE BANKING SUSPENDED alleged sender Lloyds Bank Lloyds+Tb6eUqG@smt reported 19th September 2014

  • 0.38% SECURITY CENTRE. alleged sender halifax-online.co.uk reported 12th September 2014

  • 0.33% NOTICE : YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED PLEASE UPDATE NOW. alleged sender PayPal reported 1st September 2014

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

    Keyword Frequency
    PAYPAL 4
    LLOYDS 2
    BANK 2
    INC 1
    LLOYDS+TB6EUQG@SMT 1
    PAY.PAL 1
    RBC 1
    CHARLES 1
    ITUNES 1
    FEENEY 1
    Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive

    Keyword Frequency
    YOUR 6
    ACCOUNT 4
    ONLINE 3
    BANKING 3
    HAVE 2
    YOU 2
    *** 2
    LIMITED 2
    NEW 1
    EMAIL 1
    KEITHSANDLAND@HOTMAIL.COM 1
    ADDED 1

     

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

    Keyword Frequency
    UNITED STATES 3
    FRANCE 2
    NETHERLANDS 1
    AUSTRALIA 1
    SINGAPORE 1
    ITALY 1
    UKRAINE 1

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