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PayPal, Facebook, and Banking Scams Lead the Pack
May 4, 2010 — SAN FRANCISCO - OpenDNS, provider of the world's leading Internet navigation and security services that make networks safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced April 2010 statistics for PhishTank.com, the free community Web site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data. During the month of February, the PhishTank community voted over 60,000 times on more than 17,000 suspected phishes. Included among the top most spoofed brands is PayPal.

OpenDNS is the world's largest, fastest-growing DNS service. PhishTank is the only consumer-friendly, anti-phishing effort that publicly shares timely phishing data.

Highlights from the February 2010 PhishTank statistics include:

Total number of votes by the PhishTank community: 62,860

Total number of unique, suspected phishing scams reported: 17,608

Country hosting the most phishing sites: United States

Percentage of phishing sites hosted in United States: 50

Median time it took for the PhishTank community to verify phishes: 5 hours, 4 minutes

For more detailed information about PhishTank's April statistics, including the full list of most spoofed brands, please visit: http://www.phishtank.com/stats/2010/04/
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