Spam from ARIN to POC addresses

Tue Sep 12 23:10:08 UTC 2023

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 3:00 PM packetcat <packetcat at bastetrix.com> wrote:

> At 14:01 and 14.46 EST I received two identical emails from
> meetings at arin-events.net with the subject “Join us for ARIN 52 in
> October”. One was sent to the NOC POC address and one to the abuse POC
> address for my ASN.
>
> As far as I am aware, I never signed up for whatever that mailing list is
> and if I did I wouldn’t subscribe to it on those addresses. Furthermore, I
> am not seeing an unsubscribe button on either email. That makes both
> messages spam.
>
> Considering I’ve never received messages like those from ARIN on those
> addresses, I’ll give ARIN the benefit of the doubt and say someone
> accidentally imported the wrong list of emails into their MSP. I hope this
> is not the start of a new pattern of behaviour because that would not
> be…good to put it mildly.
>
> --
> packetcat
> https://bastetrix.com
>
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