I don't know about you, but we get contacted by these companies who want
to buy/rent our unused IP resources, fairly regularly. They claim to be
'providers of proxy and email marketing resources', 'SEO Proxy, e-mail
marketing, Hosting, VPS', etc (see below for an example).
They are very persistent, and if you try you can find they typically
will offer something around 100-150$ USD/month to rent your /24, and
will also pay $1/IP. They usually want to know what the address space is
in advance, because they are looking for 'clean' addresses.
This can't be anything other than a pipeline for spammers, and it must
work. I'm wondering if this can be shut down somehow, does it require
policy changes at RIRs?
example:
Hey there,
I am Natasha Green and I’m a Procurement Specialist at Signature
Consulting, a UK based company, one of the leading providers of proxy and
email marketing resources.
We are on the market to find new and diverse IP owners that can help us in
our daily business for a monthly revenue. We aspire to find as many
companies and organizations that have access to IP’s and are not currently
using them. The upside is that you’ll get some extra monthly income for
something you were not using.
As requirements, we target every RIR and number of IP’s, so get back to me
when you have the time so we can discuss some more and find a common ground
on this.
Have a great day!
end example
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micah
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