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Stats › April 2011

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The statistics on this page are for April 1, 2011 through April 30, 2011.

Total Submissions: 18,092

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

Valid Phishes: 14,586

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

Invalid Phishes: 573

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: 84,893

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: 01 hours, 19 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 April 2011.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (5,445)
2     stuartgrant (2,014)
3     propriome (1,371)
4     zender (1,139)
5     knack (746)
6     cleanmx (723)
7     zender2 (588)
8     Harrison (480)
9     buaya (360)
10     paulch (310)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     usdcserv (12,911)
2     andrea78vr (8,179)
3     knack (8,118)
4     cybercrime (7,989)
5     stuartgrant (7,510)
6     Aminof (7,472)
7     buaya (5,429)
8     cleanmx (5,127)
9     theGeezer (4,246)
10     tetak (1,868)

Phishing URLs

In April, 622 phishes (4% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 13,966 (or 96%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     t35.com (868)
2     webcindario.com (562)
3     altervista.org (328)
4     weebly.com (296)
5     ripway.com (175)
6     110mb.com (109)
7     easily.co.uk (107)
8     woodexpertconstructions.com (80)
9     palazzo-tver.ru (79)
10     br30.com (78)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     69.10.48.106 (772)
2     66.45.237.212 (748)
3     89.17.220.221 (562)
4     93.170.52.40 (500)
5     93.170.52.30 (489)
6     93.170.52.20 (483)
7     199.34.228.106 (289)
8     66.7.215.46 (251)
9     174.121.134.60 (203)
10     64.62.181.46 (175)

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     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 1,141
2     NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 903
3     HostDime.com, Inc. 605
4     iWeb Technologies Inc. 577
5     ACENS_AS acens technologies 566
6     DRAGONARA Dragonara Alliance Ltd 547
7     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 488
8     eNET Inc. 389
9     Weebly, Inc. 296
10     GoDaddy.com, Inc. 285

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 5,598
2     Facebook 1,082
3     Sulake Corporation 582
4     Santander UK 457
5     Orkut 371
6     Poste Italiane 357
7     Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs 308
8     Barclays Bank PLC 305
9     World of Warcraft 259
10     HSBC Group 239