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Stats › April 2010

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The statistics on this page are for April 1, 2010 through April 30, 2010.

Total Submissions: 17,608

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

Valid Phishes: 9,811

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

Invalid Phishes: 596

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: 62,860

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: 05 hours, 04 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 2010.

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

Top 10 Submitters (submissions)
1     PhishReporter (9,766)
2     propriome (1,240)
3     paulch (1,004)
4     joewein (447)
5     cleanmx (415)
6     zender (378)
7     buaya (283)
8     commandt (270)
9     Harrison (269)
10     jarrykang (207)
Top 10 Verifiers (votes)
1     stuartgrant (10,993)
2     knack (10,979)
3     buaya (7,240)
4     marcoadfox (5,187)
5     Aminof (4,179)
6     theGeezer (3,439)
7     NotBuyingIt (3,364)
8     RoBerToItaPoLiS (2,451)
9     wall (2,407)
10     cybercrime (1,676)

Phishing URLs

In April, 502 phishes (5% of valid phishes that month) used an IP address (i.e. http://12.34.56.78) and 9,309 (or 95%) used a domain name (i.e. http://example.com).

Top 10 Domains (valid phishes)
1     altervista.org (455)
2     t35.com (396)
3     greengunwoo.co.kr (327)
4     110mb.com (137)
5     tripod.com (123)
6     sma36.sch.id (103)
7     hasvik.com (100)
8     easily.co.uk (87)
9     cypusnd.co.nl (50)
10     atspace.com (47)
Top 10 IPs (valid phishes)
1     211.202.2.46 (328)
2     66.45.237.212 (303)
3     69.10.48.106 (299)
4     78.129.205.5 (280)
5     65.60.10.42 (226)
6     96.30.29.192 (162)
7     209.202.252.50 (124)
8     216.18.217.67 (124)
9     174.142.79.83 (120)
10     174.133.64.42 (105)

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. 424
2     NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL INTERNET EXCHANGE LLC 399
3     HANARO-AS Hanaro Telecom Inc. 397
4     SingleHop 362
5     RAPIDSWITCH-AS RapidSwitch 329
6     Cogswell Enterprises Inc. 295
7     SoftLayer Technologies Inc. 279
8     iWeb Technologies Inc. 271
9     OVH OVH 219
10     HETZNER-AS Hetzner Online AG RZ 209

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 10,087
2     HSBC Group 1,060
3     Facebook 793
4     Bradesco 332
5     World of Warcraft 272
6     Sulake Corporation 248
7     Nedbank Ltd. 167
8     HSBC 129
9     Orkut 114
10     Bank of America Corporation 97