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Stats › May 2007

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Published: June 1, 2007

The statistics on this page are for May 1, 2007 through May 31, 2007.

Total Submissions: 53,263

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

Valid Phishes: 43,789

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

Invalid Phishes: 739

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

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

Total Votes: 347,698

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: 19 hours, 54 minutes

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



Most Active Users

Out of the more than 16,000 members of the PhishTank community, these members were the most active in May 2007.

Note: Two member accounts (antiphishing and PhishReporter) represent organizations, not individuals.

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     antiphishing (39,608)
2     PhishReporter (6,658)
3     Micha (1,012)
4     cleanmx (943)
5     Gretchen (372)
6     spamfighter (345)
7     MrViklund (332)
8     jdudeck (236)
9     seperlinky (193)
10     dbonengel (127)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     miowpurr (53,531)
2     buaya (43,502)
3     JustaPerson (41,176)
4     punkki (34,000)
5     tetak (33,802)
6     bowlby4 (33,361)
7     DougieLawson (29,004)
8     edgester (18,317)
9     polymorp (15,740)
10     Char (10,395)

Phishing URLs

In May, 1,299 phishes (3% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 42,507 (or 97%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     potreit.cn (2,237)
2     proterst.cn (2,233)
3     itsrtat.cn (2,140)
4     promobir.cn (2,116)
5     dllspro.cn (2,087)
6     directories.io (1,770)
7     usersetup.io (1,742)
8     userpro.io (1,662)
9     userpro.tw (1,657)
10     prouserbase.tw (1,398)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     221.143.234.20 (6,268)
2     69.145.198.82 (2,891)
3     221.231.147.137 (2,200)
4     24.205.124.49 (1,899)
5     200.120.67.245 (1,826)
6     66.215.145.150 (1,692)
7     62.163.59.193 (1,577)
8     64.118.0.183 (1,510)
9     207.255.217.187 (1,350)
10     69.229.194.201 (1,329)

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     SBC Internet Services 13,785
2     Hanaro Telecom Inc. 6,306
3     DTAG Deutsche Telekom AG 4,427
4     Charter Communications 3,342
5     BACOM Bell Canada 2,918
6     Bresnan Communications, LLC. 2,898
7     SHAW Shaw Communications Inc. 2,863
8     TTNET TTnet Autonomous System 2,481
9     UPC UPC Broadband 2,256
10     No.31,Jin-rong Street 2,246

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     eBay, Inc. 5,310
2     PayPal 2,934
3     Bank of America Corporation 226
4     National City 183
5     Poste Italiane 146
6     Regions Bank 143
7     Branch Banking and Trust Company 131
8     Barclays Bank PLC 78
9     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 70
10     Wells Fargo 41

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