Weekly analysis - 14th February 2015 to 21st February 2015

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21-Feb-2015

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 14th February 2015 to 21st February 2015

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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 14th February 2015 to 21st February 2015

During the week we reported a total of 24 phishing scams

22 or 92% 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% Verification-Amazon:Ticket Number PA8-9UP-P84-398SD2-5RD91X099P. alleged sender Customer Service.Amazon reported 16th February 2015

0.66% [ CHASE BANK ] Important Notification alleged sender Chase Bank reported 16th February 2015

0.63% IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PAYPAL-TEAM. alleged sender PayPal reported 16th February 2015

0.63% ACCOUNT SECURITY ALERT. alleged sender Barclays Online reported 16th February 2015

0.6% Unusual activity in your American Express account alleged sender American Express reported 15th February 2015

0.56% PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ONLINE BANKING ACCOUNT alleged sender Tesco Bank reported 15th February 2015

0.52% [PayPal]:You Account Has Been Limited !! alleged sender PayPal reported 16th February 2015

0.49% [IMPORTANT] : YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE LIMITED , PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION ✔ alleged sender PayPal reported 12th February 2015

0.49% [PayPall!!]:You Account Has Been Limited !! ✔ alleged sender paypall!! reported 13th February 2015

0.49% YOUR APPLE ID WAS ... alleged sender Apple Store reported 13th February 2015

0.48% ONLINE BANKING SECURITY alleged sender Tesco Bank reported 13th February 2015

0.44% YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE LIMITED PLEASE UPDATE YOUR INFO alleged sender Paypal reported 6th February 2015

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

Keyword Frequency

PAYPAL 8
ITUNES 3
ONLINE 2
SERVICE 2
BANK 2
LAURA 1
PAYPAI 1
IONEMAN 1
APPLE 1
FIRST 1
INC 1

RAJU 1

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

Keyword Frequency

YOUR 12
ACCOUNT 10
PAYPAL 4
BEEN 4
FROM 3
ATTENTION 3
FROZEN 3
ITUNES 3
IMPORTANT 3
WAS 3
ACTIVITY 3

PLEASE 3

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

Keyword Frequency

UNITED STATES 11
IRELAND 1
UNITED KINGDOM 1
FRANCE 1

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