Hurricane has been doing the same thing lately... but their schtick is to say that "we are seeing a significant amount of hops in your AS path and wanted to know if you are open to resolve this issue". compliance@arin.net is about all that can be done, other than public shaming! Other outfits have been spamming using the nanog attendees list, but I guess that’s not as bad as the continued scraping of ARIN records, so I won't call them out... yet, at least. 😊 -----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid.net@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Mel Beckman Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 10:28 AM To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? This morning I received an email from someone at Cogent asking about an ASN I administer. They didn’t give any details, but I assumed it might be related to some kind of network transport issue. I replied cordially, asking them what they needed. The person then replied with a blatant spam, advertising Cogent IP services, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act’s prohibition against deceptive UCE. I believe they got the contact information from ARIN, because the ARIN technical POC is the only place where my name and the ASN are connected. I believe this is a violation of Cogent’s contract with ARIN. Does anybody know how I can effectively report this to ARIN? If we can’t even police infrastructure providers for spamming, LIOAWKI. -mel beckman