Re: ARIN whois contact abuse from ipv4depot aka Silicon Desert International Inc

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> It's ridiculous that they resort to scraping public lists and DBs to try
> and achieve what they're attempting to do.

Everyone is always looking for information they can use to advance some
agenda or purpose. The internet is fertile ground for that. Always has
been, always will be.

Not taking shots at anyone here, but I am boggled why this is a common
public complaint. Block the sender and move on.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:56 PM Peter Potvin via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> Definitely have received this same spam multiple times and so have a few
> others I know. It's ridiculous that they resort to scraping public lists
> and DBs to try and achieve what they're attempting to do.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Potvin | Executive Director
>
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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:52 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone else receiving spam from this organization? Based on the
> > contents of the cold solicitations they are sending us, and the addresses
> > being sent to, they have scraped ARIN WHOIS data for noc and abuse POC
> > contact info and recent ipv4 block transfers.
> >
> > It's trivially easy to block their entire domain at the mail server
> > level, of course...