Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Based on my cursory knowledge of offshore corporate registrations in Belize, Panama and the Cayman Islands, identifying those locations which are only mailboxes versus actual business office addresses should not be overly complicated or difficult.
A problem, however, is that, these days, one can perform real business at remote locations without actual business offices there. Moreover, as page 28 of: https://www.lacnic.net/innovaportal/file/1016/3/lacnic-fasciculo-infraestruc... says: REQUIREMENTS FOR OBTAINING AN IP ADDRESS BLOCK AND AN ASN The organization must be legally incorporated in the LACNIC service region. incorporation is enough and physical presence is *NOT* required by LACNIC. Though there may be other reasons, the article explains: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occ... that are supposed to be given only to entities with a physical presence in the region Masataka Ohta PS I'm, anyway, glad that Ron now understand that "stealing" of IP addresses through AFRINIC for money is a crime of fraud.