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Stats › January 2013

The statistics on this page are for January 1, 2013 through January 31, 2013.

Total Submissions: 37,811

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

Valid Phishes: 25,021

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

Invalid Phishes: 1,219

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: 143,090

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: 03 hours, 31 minutes

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



Most Active Users

Out of the more than 20,000 members of the PhishTank community, these members were the most active in January 2013.

Note: One member account (PhishReporter) represents an organization, not an individual.

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (14,260)
2     PhishReporter (11,183)
3     knack (2,041)
4     billwake (948)
5     DefesaDigital (945)
6     joewein (654)
7     demartin (556)
8     Cedders (456)
9     Andrei1 (277)
10     Xylitol (270)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (25,321)
2     andrea78vr (21,850)
3     buaya (20,566)
4     Andrei1 (15,603)
5     phishphucker (7,792)
6     cybercrime (7,054)
7     heymoe (5,654)
8     stuartgrant (5,013)
9     Dareks (3,457)
10     Pwnage (2,997)

Phishing URLs

In January, 860 phishes (3% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 24,169 (or 97%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     creeksideshowstable.com (1,201)
2     altervista.org (224)
3     sendmaui.net (201)
4     seriport.com (147)
5     bjcurio.com (141)
6     118bm.com (102)
7     esphc.pt (94)
8     paypal-system.de (84)
9     google.com (82)
10     remorquesfranc.net (81)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     178.219.117.72 (1,338)
2     199.204.248.109 (1,201)
3     79.124.104.31 (695)
4     94.154.60.19 (512)
5     46.174.25.83 (203)
6     95.128.74.50 (203)
7     67.208.112.27 (201)
8     91.239.245.32 (179)
9     118.244.132.16 (157)
10     159.253.36.2 (147)

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     PL-FUZ-AS FUZ Adam Rojek 1,338
2     CONTINENTAL BROADBAND PENNSYLVANIA, INC. 1,294
3     GoDaddy.com, LLC 996
4     Unified Layer 793
5     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 791
6     RYBNET-AS Rybnet Sp. z o.o. Sp. k. 695
7     OVH OVH Systems 643
8     CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street 631
9     HOSTING-MEDIA Hostinger International Limited 601
10     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 589

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     PayPal 15,204
2     AOL 911
3     Cielo 686
4     Nets 507
5     Bradesco 389
6     Itau 265
7     Banco De Brasil 232
8     Facebook 206
9     Blizzard 197
10     Visa 165