RE: People trying to sell "ARIN Leads"

["nanog () jima us" <nanog () jima us>]

Of course, plausible deniability goes out the window when you receive sales emails on an address that ONLY exists in 
ARIN Whois.

But no one would put a "canary trap" email in ARIN Whois...right?

- Jima

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+nanog=jima.us () nanog org> On Behalf Of John Curran
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2022 05:03
To: Jon Sands <fohdeesha () gmail com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: People trying to sell "ARIN Leads"

Jon -  

You can forward such solicitations to mailto:compliance () arin net - we’ll send them an appropriate nasty letter.  
Definitely send any solicitation of unique contact data on Whois records to us - we do pursue misuse aggressively.

(With regard to this particular spam, I’d note there is an entire ecosystem of these “lead/demand” companies, and they 
aren’t generally selling the ARIN Whois data but instead contact data that’s been extracted from conference 
registration/attendee lists.  In this case I’d imagine you got targeted for receipt because your email has posted to 
the nanog mailing list recently.) 

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers



On 8 Apr 2022, at 12:46 AM, Jon Sands <mailto:fohdeesha () gmail com> wrote:

Does anyone else get email offers like the below? I get them at least once a week from various companies I've never 
heard of, I'm sure they pop up under different names constantly for obvious reasons. Crap like this I imagine is why a 
few of my POC emails listed on my ARIN assets get constant spam, I can't imagine how many places there are like this 
scraping then selling ARIN data to marketing outlets. name and email in the below *not* scrubbed for anonymity because 
they need to cut this shit out

-------- Forwarded Message -------- 
Subject: 
Re: American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Leads 2022 2
Date: 
Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:16:02 +0000
From: 
Julie Levay mailto:julie.levay () hoversamerica com
To: 
mailto:jon () fohdeesha com mailto:jon () fohdeesha com

Hi,
Good Day!
Would you be interested in acquiring contacts of below?
Lists Contains: Operator/Carrier/Service Provider, VAR / Systems Integrator, Device Manufacturerr, Infrastructure 
Provider, Consultant, Software / Application Development, Telecom Software Provider, Gov't/ Utility / Enterprise, 
Telecom Equipment Manufacturer, Business and Technology Leaders, CTOs, Channel & Partner Managers, Business Development 
Managers, Analysts & Infrastructure Teams from Cloud Service Providers, Telecommunications, ISPs, ISVs and the IT 
Channel and Industry serving the cloud community and more.
We provide information like-Name, Email, Title, Phone Number and Company Details
 
Please let me know you’re below requirements in detail so that I can provide Counts and test file for your review.
Target Industry: ____________________??
Target Geography: ________________??
Waiting for your response.
Regards,
Julie Levay
Demand Generation Specialists.

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Jon Sands
MFI Labs
https://fohdeesha.com/