cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

Mon Oct 2 15:34:41 UTC 2023

compliance at arin.net

Refer back to an email John Curran sent to this list on Jan 6 2020 ,
"Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois"

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 11:29 AM Mel Beckman <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
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