RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs

["Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks)" <heather.schiller () verizonbusiness com>]

+2 so far here..  Same email, same guy, different netblocks.  Spamming
for IP's to spam with?

 --heather

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Heather Schiller
Network Security - Verizon Business
1.800.900.0241    security () verizonbusiness com

-----Original Message-----
From: Crist Clark [mailto:Crist.Clark () globalstar com] 
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:47 PM
To: Nanog
Subject: Inquiries to Acquire IPs

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?