People trying to sell "ARIN Leads"
nanog at jima.us
nanog at jima.us
Fri Apr 8 18:40:44 UTC 2022
Of course, plausible deniability goes out the window when you receive sales emails on an address that ONLY exists in ARIN Whois.
But no one would put a "canary trap" email in ARIN Whois...right?
- Jima
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+nanog=jima.us at nanog.org> On Behalf Of John Curran
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2022 05:03
To: Jon Sands <fohdeesha at gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: People trying to sell "ARIN Leads"
Jon -
You can forward such solicitations to 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 <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 mailto:julie.levay at hoversamerica.com
To:
mailto: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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