Re: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

Has anyone replied?

If this is a peering request, not sure that is a bad use of the AS contact info.

If it is a sales pitch, then yeah, that’s a problem.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 14:58, Tim Burke <tim () mid net> wrote:
>
> Hurricane has been doing the same thing lately... but their schtick is to say that "we are seeing a significant 
> amount of hops in your AS path and wanted to know if you are open to resolve this issue".
>
> compliance () arin net is about all that can be done, other than public shaming! 
>
> Other outfits have been spamming using the nanog attendees list, but I guess that’s not as bad as the continued 
> scraping of ARIN records, so I won't call them out... yet, at least. 😊
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid.net () nanog org> On Behalf Of Mel Beckman
> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 10:28 AM
> To: nanog list <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?
>
> 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