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cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?


From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:28:03 +0000

This morning I received an email from someone at Cogent asking about an ASN I administer. They didn’t give any details, 
but I assumed it might be related to some kind of network transport issue. I replied cordially, asking them what they 
needed. The person then replied with a blatant spam, advertising Cogent IP services, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM 
Act’s prohibition against deceptive UCE.

I believe they got the contact information from ARIN, because the ARIN technical POC is the only place where my name 
and the ASN are connected. I believe this is a violation of Cogent’s contract with ARIN. Does anybody know how I can 
effectively report this to ARIN? If we can’t even police infrastructure providers for spamming, LIOAWKI.

 -mel beckman

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