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Stats › July 2013

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

Total Submissions: 50,931

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

Valid Phishes: 21,997

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

Invalid Phishes: 1,030

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: 156,412

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: 12 hours, 59 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 July 2013.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (28,072)
2     PhishReporter (11,537)
3     knack (2,156)
4     alsf78 (1,084)
5     tjatatt (991)
6     billwake (547)
7     ZRSABUSE (373)
8     paulch (369)
9     demartin (369)
10     leofelix (287)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     knack (41,723)
2     buaya (23,582)
3     paulch (16,093)
4     phishphucker (12,432)
5     Andrei1 (10,212)
6     NotBuyingIt (8,071)
7     heymoe (6,953)
8     andrea78vr (6,747)
9     Dareks (5,195)
10     cybercrime (4,246)

Phishing URLs

In July, 843 phishes (4% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 21,281 (or 97%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     caramiaspa.com (593)
2     jleealbums.com (351)
3     naturebest.co.ke (305)
4     filippotteau.be (273)
5     floridadryout.com (202)
6     postal.pl (201)
7     g10host.com.br (155)
8     dgtechnologies.org (152)
9     nazuka.net (142)
10     aha4kids.org (140)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     199.189.84.85 (828)
2     50.63.187.217 (593)
3     94.46.217.72 (511)
4     66.35.109.101 (353)
5     87.236.102.126 (346)
6     100.42.53.61 (305)
7     62.129.222.132 (261)
8     184.82.131.116 (202)
9     69.89.31.131 (181)
10     173.44.38.148 (160)

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     Unified Layer 1,405
2     GoDaddy.com, LLC 1,349
3     HOSTINGER-AS Hostinger International Limited 1,189
4     Hosting Solutions International, Inc. 900
5     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 843
6     OVH OVH Systems 750
7     NFSI NFSi Telecom, Lda. 544
8     iWeb Technologies Inc. 456
9     LEASEWEB LeaseWeb B.V. 447
10     ONEANDONE-AS 1&1 Internet AG 384

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 13,535
2     Bradesco 576
3     AOL 497
4     Cielo 339
5     Vodafone 184
6     Visa 182
7     Itau 169
8     Nets 131
9     Facebook 127
10     Google 126