Inquiries to Acquire IPs

Fri Jul 2 19:29:35 UTC 2010

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva
<osilva at scuff.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
> On 07/02/2010 01:46 PM, Crist Clark wrote:
>>
>> We got a strange and out of the blue inquiry from someone
>> wishing to pay us for a chunk of our ARIN allocation,
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> According to Whois data, you company owns the following
>>> IP address space:
>>>
>>> 206.220.220.0/24
>>>
>>> We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business
>>> needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with
>>> PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status?
>>>
>>> We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself
>>> and all related procedures.
>>>
>>> Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation
>>> is subject to negotiation.
>>
>> We're not interested, mostly because we use our allocation,
>> but also because I think this is not allowed by our agreement
>> with ARIN. Seems a bit fishy.
>>
>> I should add the sender identified himself and his company
>> clearly. It wasn't from some free mail account. (Although it
>> could of course be spoofed.)
>>
>> Is this a new thing? IP speculation as we come upon free pool
>> depletion? A front for spammers?
>
>
> Yeah, we received the same kind of offer here.  Here's the message in full:
>
> ******************************
> Hello,
>
> According to Whois data, you company owns the following
> IP address space:
>
> 146.6.6.0/24
>
> We would like to get this block of IP addresses for our business
> needs. Is it possible to assign this block for our company with
> PI (Provider Independent) or PA (Provider Assigned) status?
>
> We ready to pay about $5,000 for the net block itself
> and all related procedures.
>
> Would you be interested in such an offer? The amount of compensation
> is subject to negotiation.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Sergey Gotsulyak

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>
> Ideco Sales Team
> 280 Madison Ave, Suite 912
> New York, NY 10016
>
> Phone: (800) 715-3502
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>
>
> Oscar
>
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