Feel free to share the sender's "identity" in case they happen to actually be a paying customer of any of us on the list...
-----Original Message----- From: Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks) [mailto:heather.schil...@verizonbusiness.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:09 PM To: Crist Clark; Nanog Subject: RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs +2 so far here.. Same email, same guy, different netblocks. Spamming for IP's to spam with? --heather ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Heather Schiller Network Security - Verizon Business 1.800.900.0241 secur...@verizonbusiness.com -----Original Message----- From: Crist Clark [mailto:crist.cl...@globalstar.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:47 PM To: Nanog Subject: Inquiries to Acquire IPs 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?