[18549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible scam: "Network Abuse"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Thomas)
Wed Aug 5 01:51:03 1998
From: "Richard Thomas" <buglord@ex-pressnet.com>
To: "Ehud Gavron" <GAVRON@ACES.COM>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:35:25 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: GAVRON@ACES.COM <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 11:59 PM
Subject: Possible scam: "Network Abuse"
>This "fellow" sent out this email.
>
>Unfortunately, our networks were not used to attack him (or anyone),
>and upon request for NTP-stamped logs, he quit responding to email.
>
>I recommend warning your downstreams that this kind of scam is only
>just begging. Imagine... $100 for "no ip direc...."
--- 198.182.116.0 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, +13 duplicates, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 201.1/207.5/216.3 ms
Most likely running down SAR... I wonder if anyone actually paid? =)