ARIN Fraud Reporting Results - 4th Quarter 2011 [Archived]

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Fraud Reports Received
Date/Ticket Number	Report Type	Actions Taken
20111005-F870	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111007-F871	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111007-F872	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111007-F873	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111008-F874	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111102-F875	Possibly Unauthorized Return of Net Block	Informed reporter block was never returned
20111105-F906	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111105-F907	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111109-F876	Unauthorized Transfer of ASN	ARIN error (accidental deletion of AS number and reissue to another network). Returned original AS number to previous registrant with new registrant’s permission; issued new AS number to the new registrant as a replacement
20111110-F877	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111115-F878	Report of Incorrect Whois POC Information	Confirmed POC info incorrect. Marked POC handle invalid and requested updated information
20111121-F879	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111128-F880	Hijacked Net Block	Temporary route injection, apparently accidental. Informed reporter routing appeared to be a temporary error and not hijacking
20111206-F908	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111206-F909	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111206-F910	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111215-F911	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111222-F881	Outside ARIN Scope	Replied to indicate report out of scope
20111227-F912	Report of Hijacked AS number	AS number was revoked for non-payment, held by ARIN for the required time period, and reissued to another network. Informed reporter and provided instructions for requesting new AS number, if needed

Total Fraud reports received this quarter = 19

Investigation Results

ARIN received a total of 19 fraud reports during the 4th quarter of 2011. There were five reports of potential fraud related to Internet number resources registered in the ARIN database. ARIN has researched all of these reports and taken action where appropriate. The summary of those five reports and actions taken are contained in the table above.

Fourteen of the fraud reports received during this quarter were reports of incidents related to phishing, spam, identity theft, stalking/harassment, etc. ARIN did not investigate any of these reports, because they are outside the scope of ARIN’s mission. ARIN’s response to each of these reports was to notify the reporter that the fraud reporting process is restricted to matters specifically related to ARIN’s mission and area of authority such as false utilization reporting, number resource hijacking in ARIN’s database, and other activity involving fraudulent submissions to ARIN or fraudulent changes to data in ARIN’s Whois. In each of these report responses, ARIN staff provides additional useful information, including information on querying Whois, contact information for the network operator associated with a given IP address, etc. No further action was taken.