Weekly analysis - 3rd December 2016 to 10th December 2016

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10-Dec-2016

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 3rd December 2016 to 10th December 2016

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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 3rd December 2016 to 10th December 2016


During the week we reported a total of 21 phishing scams

19 or 90% 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)

0.31% USAA ONLINE NEW MESSAGE FOR YOUR VIEW alleged sender USAA reported 3rd December 2016

0.29% A person seems to have marked your own account alleged sender AOL reported 6th December 2016

0.27% Someone has now marked your current profile page alleged sender AOL reported 7th December 2016

0.27% Halle65 has placed a new friend request alleged sender AOL reported 7th December 2016

0.26% Account Notification ! alleged sender Support Team reported 4th December 2016

0.26% A woman has now marked your current profile alleged sender AOL reported 7th December 2016

0.25% New Security Alert alleged sender Chase online reported 8th December 2016

0.25% A girl has already tagged your current profile alleged sender AOL reported 7th December 2016

0.24% Somebody seems to have marked your current account alleged sender AOL reported 8th December 2016

0.23% RE: 2016 VICTIMS COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF BENIN alleged sender MR. Don C.John reported 8th December 2016

0.22% Bank of America Alert: Your Online Access is Temporarily Locked alleged sender Bank of America reported 9th December 2016

0.21% Confirm your account alleged sender PAYPAL_SUPPORT reported 6th December 2016

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
AOL	10
ONLINE	2
SERVICE	2
CHASE	1
C.JOHN	1
SERVICE@PAYPAL.COM	1
AMERICA	1
ADMINISTRATOR	1
EMAIL	1
DON	1
BANK	1
BANKING	1

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	12
ACCOUNT	9
HAS	8
CURRENT	5
MARKED	5
PROFILE	5
OWN	3
TAGGED	3
HAVE	3
SEEMS	3
NOTIFICATION	3
YOU	2

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	14
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	2
TURKEY	1
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1
FRANCE	1
THAILAND	1

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