[afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space

George Herbert george.herbert at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 21:42:23 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>> Even more suspicious is the fact that there is no organisational
>> information attached to the request and the sender used a gmail
>> address. They supplied an Indian telephone number.
>
> it is about this point where i realize that i am overloaded with real
> work, hit delete, and get back to that work.

I view this as an excercise in applied humor and in the potential
scammer's RFC-1918 knowledge.

"I can offer you 172.29.128.0/17 for the reasonable price of..."

However, if Real Work is sufficiently important today, the amusement
value of pursuing it is probably not worth it.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com




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