People trying to sell "ARIN Leads"

Fri Apr 8 10:02:39 UTC 2022

Jon -

You can forward such solicitations to compliance at arin.net<mailto:compliance at arin.net> - we’ll send them an appropriate nasty letter.  Definitely send any solicitation of unique contact data on Whois records to us - we do pursue misuse aggressively.

(With regard to this particular spam, I’d note there is an entire ecosystem of these “lead/demand” companies, and they aren’t generally selling the ARIN Whois data but instead contact data that’s been extracted from conference registration/attendee lists.  In this case I’d imagine you got targeted for receipt because your email has posted to the nanog mailing list recently.)

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers

On 8 Apr 2022, at 12:46 AM, Jon Sands <fohdeesha at gmail.com<mailto:fohdeesha at gmail.com>> wrote:

Does anyone else get email offers like the below? I get them at least once a week from various companies I've never heard of, I'm sure they pop up under different names constantly for obvious reasons. Crap like this I imagine is why a few of my POC emails listed on my ARIN assets get constant spam, I can't imagine how many places there are like this scraping then selling ARIN data to marketing outlets. name and email in the below *not* scrubbed for anonymity because they need to cut this shit out

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:        Re: American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Leads 2022 2
Date:   Thu, 7 Apr 2022 12:16:02 +0000
From:   Julie Levay <julie.levay at hoversamerica.com><mailto:julie.levay at hoversamerica.com>
To:     jon at fohdeesha.com<mailto:jon at fohdeesha.com> <jon at fohdeesha.com><mailto:jon at fohdeesha.com>

Hi,
Good Day!
Would you be interested in acquiring contacts of below?
Lists Contains: Operator/Carrier/Service Provider, VAR / Systems Integrator, Device Manufacturerr, Infrastructure Provider, Consultant, Software / Application Development, Telecom Software Provider, Gov't/ Utility / Enterprise, Telecom Equipment Manufacturer, Business and Technology Leaders, CTOs, Channel & Partner Managers, Business Development Managers, Analysts & Infrastructure Teams from Cloud Service Providers, Telecommunications, ISPs, ISVs and the IT Channel and Industry serving the cloud community and more.
We provide information like-Name, Email, Title, Phone Number and Company Details

Please let me know you’re below requirements in detail so that I can provide Counts and test file for your review.
Target Industry: ____________________??
Target Geography: ________________??
Waiting for your response.
Regards,
Julie Levay

Demand Generation Specialists.

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Jon Sands
MFI Labs
https://fohdeesha.com/

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