Weekly analysis - 18th February 2017 to 25th February 2017

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25-Feb-2017

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 18th February 2017 to 25th February 2017

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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 18th February 2017 to 25th February 2017


During the week we reported a total of 24 phishing scams

21 or 88% 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)

0.2% YOUR APPIE LD IS AUTOMATICALLY LOCKED. alleged sender Apple reported 7th February 2017

0.2% YOUR ACCOUNT IS ABOUT TO CLOSE alleged sender Yahoo reported 21st February 2017

0.19% PAYPAL : YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN LIMITED UNTIL WE HEAR FROM YOU alleged sender PayPal reported 22nd February 2017

0.19% You Have An Incoming Payment Notification alleged sender USAA reported 20th February 2017

0.18% YOU HAVE 1 NEW SECURITY MESSAGE! alleged sender Royal Bank of Scotland reported 21st February 2017

0.18% You sent a payment of $1,324.74 USD to Ebay alleged sender Support PayPal reported 23rd February 2017

0.17% |CHASE BANK| IMPORTANT NOTlFlCATlON! alleged sender Chase reported 22nd February 2017

0.16% Your Apple ID information has been updated. alleged sender Apple ID reported 24th February 2017

0.15% Alert Notice alleged sender Microsoft reported 23rd February 2017

0.15% Your Apple lD information has been updated alleged sender Apple lD reported 20th February 2017

0.15% Secure your rgwalker99@aol.com mail account. alleged sender Customer Support reported 22nd February 2017

0.13% .Chase.Bank.Attention: A new payee has been added alleged sender Chase Bank Alert reported 13th February 2017

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
PAYPAL	4
MICROSOFT	2
APPLE	2
USAA	2
SERVICE	2
SUPPORT	2
MRS.HELEN	1
CHASE	1
SMITH	1
LIDL	1
BARCLAYS	1
NOTIFICATION	1

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	10
YOU	8
ACCOUNT	4
PAYMENT	3
HAS	3
HAVE	3
BEEN	3
MAIL	3
SECURITY	3
NEW	2
ALERT	2
INCOMING	2

 

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

Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	15
GERMANY	4
SEYCHELLES	1
NETHERLANDS	1
AUSTRALIA	1

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