My recently deceased uncle has a total of 100 /16s which at the moment are held in a bank in Libya. I am looking for a partner to help release these IPv4 resources to invest in your country.....
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 08 March 2011 15:19 To: Phil Regnauld Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Shepherd Magumo Subject: Re: [afnog] Suspicious request for IP address space On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:43:38PM +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote: > (Cross posting to nanog, apologies if this is considered not appropriate). > > Shepherd Magumo (shepherd) writes: > > Good day, > > > > I work for an ISP with own small AfriNIC IP block and ASN number and > > recently received a second suspicious request for a huge IP address space > > with server hosting solution and we are about to turn it down. > > > > Below is the exact request and I am sure there is something dodge about this > > request. Anybody else in ISP receive this? > > > > We are looking for an IP address space of /17 and we would like to lease it > > > for one complete year. Please quote us the price and if its something in > > > our > > > range, We will go ahead and purchase, Along with it do you provide > > > dedicated > > > servers and hosting services. Get back to me soon along with the requested > > > details. > > Hi Shepherd, > > Without disclosing the sender of this mail, do you know where it's > originating from, region wise ? The size looks a bit large to be a > legitimate request. They might be probing the market to find a LIR > willing to go along with a scam. > > As I see it, if you consider the ratio of available IPv4 space left in > the AfriNIC pool vs. the population in Africa, there is a temptation > for IPv4 hungry orgs. to acquire v4 space via front companies in Africa, > and announce it elsewhere - where the validation process for the > appropriate RIR would be more stringent. > i received the -exact- text as well. I offered a lease, at the usual terms, which was outside their range of acceptable cost. the request came from outside the AFRInic service area.... --bill
