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 -- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+nanog=jima.us@nanog.org> On Behalf Of John Curran Sent: Friday, April 8, 2022 05:03 To: Jon Sands <fohdeesha@gmail.com> Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: People trying to sell "ARIN Leads" Jon - You can forward such solicitations to mailto:compliance@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@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@hoversamerica.com To: mailto:jon@fohdeesha.com mailto:jon@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. -- Jon Sands MFI Labs https://fohdeesha.com/