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

Hi Ronald, 

> Has _any_ person who has _ever_ reported any kind of fraud or "abuse"
> to RIPE NCC _ever_ seriously desired _any_ anonymity and/or confidentialty in connection with any such report?

> I rather doubt it.

> The people who need to hide in the shadows are the abusers... not the public spirited samaritans who merely report their skulduggery.  Speaking for myself, I can assure you that _I_ don't feel any need to hide.

There could be very good reasons not to put a target on themselves. 

Especially with certain crime, like running Botnets for hire or selling online pharmacy pills in huge quantities, those involve a lot of cash and mafia type practices are very likely, it is far better to be able to be able to report information without your name having published publicly. 

Some of the people in this community are also running their own network/business and just because you find a huge issue or you were part of a large botnet takedown, doesn't mean you want to risk your network/business to be a target of repercussions. 

Regards,
Erik Bais