Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva
<osilva () scuff cc utexas edu> wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 01:46 PM, Crist Clark wrote:
> > We got a strange and out of the blue inquiry from someone
> > wishing to pay us for a chunk of our ARIN allocation,
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > According to Whois data, you company owns the following
> > > IP address space:
> > >
> > > 206.220.220.0/24
> > >
> > > We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business
> > > needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with
> > > PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status?
> > >
> > > We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself
> > > and all related procedures.
> > >
> > > Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation
> > > is subject to negotiation.
> >
> > We're not interested, mostly because we use our allocation,
> > but also because I think this is not allowed by our agreement
> > with ARIN. Seems a bit fishy.
> >
> > I should add the sender identified himself and his company
> > clearly. It wasn't from some free mail account. (Although it
> > could of course be spoofed.)
> >
> > Is this a new thing? IP speculation as we come upon free pool
> > depletion? A front for spammers?
>
>
> Yeah, we received the same kind of offer here.  Here's the message in full:
>
> ******************************
> Hello,
>
> According to Whois data, you company owns the following
> IP address space:
>
> 146.6.6.0/24
>
> We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business
> needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with
> PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status?
>
> We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself
> and all related procedures.
>
> Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation
> is subject to negotiation.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Sergey Gotsulyak

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>
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>
> Oscar