Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

John,

Thank you for your guidance!

 -mel

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 8:33 AM, John Sweeting <jsweeting () arin net> wrote:
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> Mel, I will reply to you off list. Thanks.
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> On 10/2/23, 11:28 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman" <nanog-bounces+jsweeting=arin.net () nanog org 
> <mailto:arin.net () nanog org> on behalf of mel () beckman org <mailto:mel () beckman org>> wrote:
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>
> 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