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Stats › March 2012

The statistics on this page are for March 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012.

Total Submissions: 20,574

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

Valid Phishes: 11,882

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

Invalid Phishes: 1,011

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: 72,786

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, 28 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 March 2012.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (7,767)
2     cleanmx (3,925)
3     DefesaDigital (777)
4     joewein (498)
5     demartin (497)
6     buaya (388)
7     knack (368)
8     Cedders (336)
9     dms (293)
10     alsf78 (255)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     cybercrime (11,458)
2     madsdam (7,624)
3     andrea78vr (7,624)
4     knack (7,337)
5     Nottambulo (7,152)
6     stuartgrant (6,805)
7     buaya (5,946)
8     ozana (1,840)
9     tetak (1,270)
10     Dareks (1,060)

Phishing URLs

In March, 1,085 phishes (9% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 10,807 (or 91%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     paaprz.co.uk (129)
2     vpbw.com.au (128)
3     altervista.org (96)
4     eltoncorp.rs (63)
5     v3s.mx (51)
6     hiposistem.co.rs (51)
7     smfnew.com (44)
8     createsend1.com (44)
9     clouduol.com.br (41)
10     baixarandroid.com (40)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     173.236.46.218 (130)
2     109.228.7.13 (129)
3     89.144.166.156 (121)
4     77.105.36.118 (117)
5     189.113.2.23 (97)
6     93.170.52.20 (97)
7     95.38.103.25 (94)
8     93.170.52.30 (94)
9     77.104.74.145 (75)
10     27.126.145.32 (60)

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     SingleHop 842
2     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 440
3     ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc. 341
4     Itanet - Itamarati On-Line Ltda. 324
5     iWeb Technologies Inc. 247
6     HostDime.com, Inc. 240
7     OVH OVH Systems 235
8     Bluehost Inc. 219
9     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 206
10     GoDaddy.com, LLC 189

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 8,723
2     TAM Fidelidade 618
3     Bradesco 304
4     Cielo 279
5     AOL 234
6     Santander UK 191
7     Visa 184
8     eBay, Inc. 173
9     Mastercard 128
10     Co-operative Bank 111