cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

Mon Oct 2 16:16:22 UTC 2023

Tom,

Thanks for that pointer! apparently cogent has a history of abuse.

 -mel

On Oct 2, 2023, at 8:34 AM, Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:

compliance at arin.net<mailto: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<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
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