cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

Mon Oct 2 15:33:03 UTC 2023

Mel, I will reply to you off list. Thanks.

On 10/2/23, 11:28 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman" <nanog-bounces+jsweeting=arin.net at nanog.org <mailto:arin.net at nanog.org> on behalf of mel at beckman.org <mailto:mel at beckman.org>> wrote:

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