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Weekly analysis - 30th December 2017 to 6th January 2018

Weekly analysis - 30th December 2017 to 6th January 2018


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06-Jan-2018

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 30th December 2017 to 6th January 2018

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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 30th December 2017 to 6th January 2018


During the week we reported a total of 3 phishing scams

3 or 100% 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)

  • 2.84% Message Updates. alleged sender Barclays reported 25th September 2008

  • 1.64% Urgent Notification (Your Cahoot Bank Account Has Been Block) alleged sender Cahoot reported 27th April 2010

  • 0.25% Account? Verification alleged sender No-reply@bt.com reported 27th January 2015

  • 0.16% Re: [Invoice] Thank you for your purchase at Apple Store Order from Dec 26, 2017. alleged sender Order Confirmation AppIe reported 4th January 2018

  • 0.08% Ref to your fund: $850.000.00. alleged sender Dr. Samuel Tata reported 28th December 2017

  • 0.06% Your Amazon.com (#204-2683040-3434708) alleged sender Auto-Confirm Amazon reported 12th October 2017

  • 0.06% Your account has been suspended ! alleged sender Netflix reported 21st December 2017

  • 0.06% Account Receivables (Job Offer) alleged sender Yokohama Rubber Company reported 21st December 2017

  • 0.06% Invitation: Contacting Western Union email..(westernunion1087@gmail.com)call (+229-68 99 38 19) @ Wednesday, alleged sender western union reported 13th November 2017

  • 0.06% YOUR RECEIPT FROM APPLE STORE alleged sender Apple Service reported 2nd March 2017

  • 0.06% Verification Required alleged sender Martin Cox reported 17th November 2016

  • 0.06% Your account information require Update alleged sender Chase online reported 27th December 2017

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

    Keyword Frequency
    BANK 1
    PLC 1
    HSBC 1
    SERVICE@INTL.PAYPAL.COM 1
    CONFIRMATION 1
    APPIE 1
    ORDER 1
    Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive

    Keyword Frequency
    YOUR 3
    HAS 2
    JANUARY 1
    SATURDAY, 1
    PASSWORD 1
    SOMEONE 1
    2018 1
    (GMT7) 1
    SUSPENDED 1
    BEEN 1
    ACCESS 1
    ONLINE 1

     

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

    Keyword Frequency
    UNITED STATES 3

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