[anti-abuse-wg] regarding very persistent spammy isps on ripe

hi ripe folks,

I work on spam filter and we notice very gross abuse of very large internet
ranges by blatant spammers posing as ISPs - all of which are allocated by
ripe. I totally understand that ripe is not to deal with the spam but it
will be totally unjust to say they will allocate a /13 to a spammer and have
spammer wreak havoc or do what ever crap he wants to do. I posted a couple
of messages to ripe and all I get is the same routine message saying they
wont police this. But, why are they giving the address ranges of such huge
magnitude to criminals if they cannot police it ? It will be a great
disservice if this continues to happen. We always notice the spammer is
always from same place or address

We already blocked a bunch of /13s allocated by ripe to spammers and at some
point may have to block even wider range since all we see from every ip in
that range is spam or phishing or no activity.

Always, the whois refers to a guy with address in sector 3, bucharest,
romania.

I know ipv4 addresses are running out but even ipv6 will run out if we do
same thing like allocating like crazy very large netblock ranges to
spammers.
Can ripe do anything here or of any help here other than just saying they
just give away ip addresses ranges to ISPs (which inturn some are criminals)
but do not police ?

The thing that changes is the name of the person - either berar george or
somethign else etc.,.
for instance today the spammer is using range  :

vijaye at veranti:~$ whois 193.254.53.34
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf

% Note: this output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '193.254.48.0 - 193.254.63.255'

inetnum:         193.254.48.0 - 193.254.63.255
netname:         COMTEL-SUPERNET
descr:           COMTEL Supernet srl
descr:           COMTEL dedicated customers
country:         RO
tech-c:          GDG620-RIPE
admin-c:         GDG620-RIPE
admin-c:         CT19-RIPE
tech-c:          CT19-RIPE
status:          ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:          COMTEL-MNT
source:          RIPE # Filtered

person:          Corneliu Tanasa
address:         COMTEL TELECOM NETWORK SRL
address:         18 Decebal Blvd., Sector 3
address:         Bucharest, ROMANIA
phone:           +40-21-3229390
fax-no:          +40-21-3229391
e-mail:          ggoran at comtelnetworks.ro
mnt-by:          COMTEL-MNT
nic-hdl:         CT19-RIPE
source:          RIPE # Filtered
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