Weekly analysis - 10th October 2020 to 17th October 2020

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17-Oct-2020

MillerSmiles provides its weekly phishing analysis for the week of 10th October 2020 to 17th October 2020

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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 10th October 2020 to 17th October 2020

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)

0.66% SECURITY ALERT: keep your account safe,multiple login on your account. alleged sender PayPal Credit reported 17th August 2020

0.66% RE: 1 new message alleged sender HotmailOutlookCheck reported 6th April 2020

0.66% Your account has been locked alleged sender AppIe Service reported 6th July 2020

0.48% IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT AOL SECURITY (Action Required) alleged sender Aol mail. reported 27th March 2020

0.35% AOL ACCOUNT SERVICES!!! alleged sender AOL Mail Team (AOLMemberInfo@c reported 6th February 2020

0.24% Microsoft account unusual sign-in activity alleged sender OutlookTeam reported 9th October 2020

0.22% DROPBOX DOCUMENT alleged sender Ken reported 14th October 2020

0.17% IMPORTANT AOL MAIL UPDATE!!! alleged sender AOL Mail Team (noreply@cc.aol. reported 27th March 2020

0.13% Your Account Has Been Locked alleged sender Amazon.com digital-no+56776124 reported 16th October 2020

0.12% Re: (Amazon Services) Your automatic payment did not process order(s) Saturday, September 26, 2020 alleged sender Customer Service reported 26th September 2020

0.12% Important Information About Your AOL - Email Service alleged sender AOL Customer Service reported 6th May 2020

Top 12 keywords in the apparent sender in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
DIGITAL-NO+56776124	1
AMAZON.COM	1
KEN	1

Top 12 keywords in the subject line in this last week's phishing scam archive
Keyword	Frequency
BEEN	1
LOCKED	1
HAS	1
ACCOUNT	1
DOCUMENT	1
YOUR	1
DROPBOX	1

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

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