[anti-abuse-wg] Notice: Fradulent RIPE ASNs

Problems with excessively large allocations by romanian LIRs to spam
operations has been a problem over the last few years at least, so that
ripe ncc might want to take cognizance of all this information do a
proactive audit of all  allocations over a period of time done through a
particular LIRs, rather than play whack a mole with manually reported
netblocks.

--srs (htc one x)
On 15-Jan-2013 6:20 AM, "Sander Steffann" <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > The last time a romanian I know checked, most of these appear to be set
> up with business registration that was valid at the time the netblocks were
> registered but mostly lapsed a year or so later.
> >
> > Almost as if someone in bucharest walks into a bar, pays people there a
> few euro in drinking money if they will let their ID get used to register a
> shell company that can then register for a /16 or larger netblock.
>
> Well, the allocations/assignments are only valid as long as the original
> criteria are still met. In this case it seems obvious that this is no
> longer the case as the entity for which they were requested no longer
> exists. But to be certain there has to be work done by the RIPE NCC. They
> can't just revoke resources because someone posted a message on a mailing
> list :-)
>
> Submitting this information to http://www.ripe.net/report-form seems
> appropriate.
>
> Cheers,
> Sander
>
>
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