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Stats › January 2009

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The statistics on this page are for January 1, 2009 through January 31, 2009.

Total Submissions: 37,909

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

Valid Phishes: 8,666

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

Invalid Phishes: 769

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: 98,414

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: 25 hours, 34 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 2009.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     cleanmx (20,770)
2     PhishReporter (7,114)
3     spamfighter (1,720)
4     propriome (1,189)
5     joewein (1,056)
6     buaya (715)
7     JustaPerson (431)
8     spamreview (423)
9     phishtrap (339)
10     paulch (317)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     buaya (31,692)
2     SuIsh (25,303)
3     stuartgrant (11,051)
4     spamreview (3,584)
5     ocalphish (3,564)
6     tetak (2,636)
7     Micha (2,488)
8     cleanmx (1,678)
9     hsskc (1,671)
10     JustaPerson (998)

Phishing URLs

In January, 780 phishes (9% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 7,886 (or 91%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     tripod.com (188)
2     atspace.com (102)
3     ns10-wistee.fr (73)
4     geocities.com (69)
5     alice.it (66)
6     altervista.org (66)
7     nm.ru (64)
8     by.ru (62)
9     ieaf.es (59)
10     tfgins.com (55)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     64.99.64.32 (926)
2     210.249.74.115 (365)
3     209.202.252.50 (189)
4     99.167.208.228 (183)
5     98.217.125.105 (151)
6     217.24.188.156 (136)
7     66.18.176.46 (124)
8     201.160.52.15 (122)
9     91.123.159.112 (108)
10     98.242.146.109 (107)

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     TUCOWS Tucows International 938
2     AT&T Internet Services 732
3     Ecommerce Corporation 230
4     SAVVIS Savvis 202
5     Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc 169
6     COMSTAR Telecommunications 168
7     Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. 164
8     OVH OVH 159
9     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 158
10     Uninet S.A. de C.V. 153

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 9,575
2     eBay, Inc. 720
3     Internal Revenue Service 469
4     Sulake Corporation 459
5     Google 336
6     JPMorgan Chase and Co. 321
7     Wells Fargo 289
8     HSBC Group 272
9     Bank of America Corporation 231
10     Lloyds TSB 110