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Published: December 1, 2006

The statistics on this page are for November 1, 2006 through November 30, 2006.

Total Submissions: 18,130

The total number of suspected phishes submitted by the PhishTank community.

Valid Phishes: 9,628

The total number of submissions verified as valid by the PhishTank community.

Invalid Phishes: 450

The total number of submissions verified as invalid by the PhishTank community.

Note: The majority of phishing emails were offline at the time of submission to PhishTank. Offline phishes cannot be voted on, and therefore cannot be verified.

Total Votes: 93,103

The total number of "is a phish," "is not a phish," and "I don't know" votes made by the PhishTank community.

Median Time To Verify: 5 hours, 28 minutes

The median time it took the PhishTank community to verify submissions as valid or invalid.



Most Active Users

Out of the more than 3,296 members of the PhishTank community, these members are the most active.

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     funchords (12,381)
2     spamfighter (669)
3     Micha (471)
4     cleanmx (315)
5     moike (302)
6     ruralnetcop (288)
7     JustaPerson (220)
8     MASA (167)
9     polymorp (133)
10     chalky (98)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     miowpurr (5,361)
2     bowlby4 (5,325)
3     JustaPerson (3,781)
4     polymorp (3,713)
5     buaya (3,587)
6     Char (3,489)
7     ruralnetcop (3,126)
8     lutralutra (2,718)
9     Simurgh (2,212)
10     DougieLawson (1,873)

Phishing URLs

In November, 1,299 phishes (16% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 8,329 (or 84%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     daereasds.bz (135)
2     caeresi.jp (131)
3     sa.com (120)
4     se.net (111)
5     andoesn.biz (103)
6     noverfa.biz (88)
7     affdns.cc (86)
8     ldlestb.md (84)
9     jiuildf.bz (83)
10     thaddecons.co.nz (79)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     211.237.104.70 (951)
2     211.137.13.131 (885)
3     211.211.141.14 (864)
4     64.46.170.3 (805)
5     202.134.177.23 (711)
6     64.14.244.55 (612)
7     200.123.239.21 (596)
8     211.33.217.207 (543)
9     211.148.164.158 (519)
10     211.170.89.162 (509)

Networks That Host Phishes

The servers hosting verified phishes are under the responsibility of these networks. PhishTank knows this because it traces phishing Web sites to an IP address. These are the organizations responsible for those IP addresses.

Top 10 NetworksValid Phishes
1     Korea Telecom 2,301
2     DACOM Corporation 1,142
3     Hanaro Telecom Inc. 1,136
4     Seven Star Internet Service Provider 997
5     Futures Cable Television, Inc. 951
6     Guangdong Mobile Communication Co.Ltd. 918
7     LEASENET LeaseNet, Inc. 805
8     SAVVIS Savvis 763
9     PEOPLE ONLINE 596
10     TIANJIN BROADCAST NETWORK CO.LTD 543

Popular Targets

These are the brands that were fraudulently represented in phishing emails. Targets are identified by the submitter at the time of submission, or determined by PhishTank's software to the best of its ability. The majority of phishes are not categorized with a target.

Top 10 Identified TargetsValid Phishes
1     Barclays Bank PLC 1,733
2     PayPal 1,043
3     eBay, Inc. 852
4     Fifth Third Bank 458
5     Wells Fargo 399
6     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 308
7     Bank of America Corporation 161
8     Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken 117
9     Citibank 30
10     Key Bank 28

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