[138462] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Tue Mar 8 10:35:42 2011
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:33:11 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20110308151851.GA21573@vacation.karoshi.com.>
From: "Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>,
"Phil Regnauld" <regnauld@nsrc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Shepherd Magumo <shepherd@snowball.co.za>, afnog@afnog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
My recently deceased uncle has a total of 100 /16s which at the moment
are held in a bank in Libya. I am looking for a partner to help release
these IPv4 resources to invest in your country.....
-----Original Message-----
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
[mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]=20
Sent: 08 March 2011 15:19
To: Phil Regnauld
Cc: afnog@afnog.org; nanog@nanog.org; Shepherd Magumo
Subject: Re: [afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> (Cross posting to nanog, apologies if this is considered not
appropriate).
>=20
> Shepherd Magumo (shepherd) writes:
> > Good day,
> >=20
> > I work for an ISP with own small AfriNIC IP block and ASN number and
> > recently received a second suspicious request for a huge IP address
space
> > with server hosting solution and we are about to turn it down.
> >=20
> > Below is the exact request and I am sure there is something dodge
about this
> > request. Anybody else in ISP receive this?
> >=20
> > We are looking for an IP address space of /17 and we would like to
lease it
> > > for one complete year. Please quote us the price and if its
something in
> > > our
> > > range, We will go ahead and purchase, Along with it do you provide
> > > dedicated
> > > servers and hosting services. Get back to me soon along with the
requested
> > > details.
>=20
> Hi Shepherd,
>=20
> Without disclosing the sender of this mail, do you know where
it's
> originating from, region wise ? The size looks a bit large to
be a
> legitimate request. They might be probing the market to find a
LIR
> willing to go along with a scam.
>=20
> As I see it, if you consider the ratio of available IPv4 space
left in
> the AfriNIC pool vs. the population in Africa, there is a
temptation
> for IPv4 hungry orgs. to acquire v4 space via front companies in
Africa,
> and announce it elsewhere - where the validation process for the
> appropriate RIR would be more stringent.
>=20
i received the -exact- text as well. I offered a lease, at the
usual
terms, which was outside their range of acceptable cost. the
request
came from outside the AFRInic service area....
--bill
