Weekly analysis - 9th June 2018 to 16th June 2018

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16-Jun-2018

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 9th June 2018 to 16th June 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 9th June 2018 to 16th June 2018

During the week we reported a total of 2 phishing scams

2 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)

9.2% FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CABINET MEMBERS alleged sender sanjoe@iol.ie@iol.ie sanjoe@io reported 18th May 2018

0.42% Notice: Your Profile is Updated ! alleged sender Bank of America reported 14th June 2018

0.33% Your AOL email will be closed alleged sender Email reported 9th June 2018

0.2% Re-confirm Your E-mail paulhammon@hotmail.com alleged sender Outlook.com team reported 18th May 2018

0.14% YOUR AOL EMAIL WILL BE DELETED alleged sender AOL reported 15th June 2018

0.13% eBay Change Email Notice alleged sender eBay reported 13th June 2007

0.09% ***Chase Secure E-mail Service Update alleged sender 2010 JPMorgan Chase & Co. 201 reported 22nd July 2010

0.08% A message from HM Revenue charset=utf-8"> alleged sender HM Revenue & Customs - GOV UK reported 30th May 2018

0.08% [ PayPaI Inc. ] : Update Your Account Information alleged sender PayPal reported 28th April 2016

0.08% Help us protect your account - #4569845212 (lindacj1@aol.com) alleged sender eBay reported 20th May 2018

0.08% eBay vehicle for sale alleged sender Dave Jacobs reported 20th May 2018

0.07% Secure Message alleged sender Chase Bank reported 20th May 2018

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
AOL	1
AMERICA	1
BANK	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
YOUR	2
WILL	1
DELETED	1
EMAIL	1
UPDATED	1
PROFILE	1
NOTICE:	1
AOL	1

Top 12 countries hosting phishing sites in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
UNITED STATES	2

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