Weekly analysis - 17th December 2016 to 24th December 2016

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24-Dec-2016

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 17th December 2016 to 24th 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 17th December 2016 to 24th December 2016

During the week we reported a total of 14 phishing scams

12 or 86% 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)

0.34% A girl appears to have tagged your very own personal profile alleged sender AOL reported 21st December 2016

0.32% Your Order with Amazon.com alleged sender AUTO-CONFIRM@AMAZON.COM reported 8th October 2012

0.29% mpsv@live.com Payment Attached alleged sender James Williams reported 21st December 2016

0.25% Please update your Account Information alleged sender Apple reported 17th December 2016

0.25% Finally 100% Binary Autopilot robot [DOWNLOAD LINK for mpsv@live.com] alleged sender Paul Davis reported 21st December 2016

0.22% YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED. alleged sender PayPal reported 19th December 2016

0.22% An individual seems to have marked your current profile page alleged sender AOL reported 22nd December 2016

0.2% Unlock Your PayPal Account alleged sender PayPal reported 18th December 2016

0.18% BB&T BANK - PERSONAL INFORMATION UPDATE alleged sender BB&T Bank reported 20th December 2016

0.17% Somebody has already tagged your current user profile alleged sender AOL reported 24th December 2016

0.17% Notification Alert: Update your information alleged sender SunTrust Online reported 20th December 2016

0.16% Important information about your account alleged sender NatWest Bank reported 20th December 2016

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
AOL	5
BANK	3
PAYPAL	2
WILLIAMS	1
AMERICA	1
ALERT	1
JAMES	1
AMAZON	1
ONLINE	1
NATWEST	1
BB&T	1
SUNTRUST	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	9
ACCOUNT	4
INFORMATION	3
TAGGED	3
HAS	3
PROFILE	3
SOMEBODY	2
ALERT:	2
CURRENT	2
VERY	2
HAVE	2
PERSONAL	2

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	11
HONG KONG	1
FRANCE	1
UNITED KINGDOM	1

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