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: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: 08 March 2011 15:19 To: Phil Regnauld Cc: afnog@afnog.org; nanog@nanog.org; 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