ARIN Fraud Reporting Results - 4th Quarter 2013 [Archived]

Fraud Reports Received

Date/Ticket Number	Report Type	Actions Taken
20131005-F1337	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131006-F1338	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131007-F1318	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131010-F1319	Company using inflated or fraudulent utilization	Investigation ongoing
20131014-F1339	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131019-F1320	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131019-F1321	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131021-F1322	Company giving out IPs without justification	Investigation ongoing
20131026-F1323	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131029-F1324	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131109-F1326	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131126-F1356	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131127-F1357	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131130-F1358	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131130-F1359	Company giving out IPs without justification	Investigation ongoing
20131201-F1327	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131207-F1328	Company giving out IPs without justification	Investigation ongoing
20131209-F1329	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131215-F1378	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope
20131215-F1379	Report of invalid Whois information	Investigation ongoing
20131215-F1380	Report of invalid Whois information	Investigation ongoing
20131228-F1413	Company giving out IPs without justification	Investigation ongoing
20131229-F1414	Company providing false utilization information	Investigation ongoing
20131229-F1415	Non-ARIN Fraud	Informer reporter fraud is outside ARIN’s scope

Total Fraud reports received this quarter = 24

Investigation Results

ARIN received a total of twenty-four fraud reports during the 4th quarter of 2013.

Four reports stated that certain organizations were issuing IP address space to downstream customers without requiring any justification from their customers. ARIN is currently investigating these reports and doing an audit of all four of these organizations’ accounts.

Two reports contained information about invalid ARIN Whois information, which ARIN is researching.

Two reports focused on fraudulent IP justification information, one stating that the organization was submitting inflated/fraudulent customer utilization information and the other that an organization was submitting falsified utilization information. ARIN is investigating both of these reports and will be doing an audit of both of these organizations’ accounts.

Sixteen fraud reports received during this quarter were reports of incidents related to phishing, spam, identity theft, 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.