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Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Wed Apr 13 18:59:22 2005

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:58:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <16989.40594.427779.629039@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> > The largest part (>90%) does originate in Nigeria.  The remainder comes
> > from countries adjacent to Nigeria such as Togo, Senegal, etc (~6%) or
> > from the Netherlands (~4%)
> would love to see the cite for this, please
> randy

I have a collected archive of nearly 1000 nigerian scam emails if anyone 
would like to do an analysis.

From what I recall a large % of origin IP (where origin IP is 
identifiable) are registered directly to Lagos.

-Dan



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