[138480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Mar 8 16:42:27 2011
In-Reply-To: <m2ei6h9u3u.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:42:23 -0800
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: afnog@afnog.org, nanog@nanog.org, Shepherd Magumo <shepherd@snowball.co.za>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> Even more suspicious is the fact that there is no organisational
>> information attached to the request and the sender used a gmail
>> address. They supplied an Indian telephone number.
>
> it is about this point where i realize that i am overloaded with real
> work, hit delete, and get back to that work.
I view this as an excercise in applied humor and in the potential
scammer's RFC-1918 knowledge.
"I can offer you 172.29.128.0/17 for the reasonable price of..."
However, if Real Work is sufficiently important today, the amusement
value of pursuing it is probably not worth it.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
