ARIN Fraud Reporting Results - 4th Quarter 2010 [Archived]

Fraud Reports Received

Date/Ticket #	Report	Action Taken
20101002-F685	Report of ASN hijack	ASN reclaimed
20101004-F686	Reply from previous fraud ticket re: removing route advertisements of hijacked blocks	No action required
20101005-F687	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101012-F688	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101013-F699	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101014-F689	Invalid Contact Information	Contacted registrant to attempt to get updated information
20101017-F690	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101019-F691	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101020-F719	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101028-F739	Report of IPv4 block hijack	Registration information determined to be legitimate
20101029-F720	Abuse from unregistered range	Informed customer range wasn’t registered and hadn’t been routed for the past 3 months
20101102-F721	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101104-F722	Report of fraudulent SWIP	Contacted ISP to determine whether it was fraudulent
20101104-F723	Report of fraudulent SWIP	Contacted ISP to determine whether it was fraudulent
20101104-F724	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101105-F725	Report of erroneous SWIP	Worked with customer to get erroneous SWIP removed
20101119-F742	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101127-F743	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101128-F744	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101128-F745	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101128-F746	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101128-F747	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101202-F748	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101204-F749	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101211-F726	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101216-F750	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101228-F751	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101229-F752	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20101230-F753	Abuse or non-ARIN Fraud	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting

Total Fraud reports received this quarter = 29

Investigation Results

There were a total of 29 fraud reports received during the fouth quarter of 2010. Twenty-one 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.

There were eight reports of potential fraud that ARIN was able to research and take action on. The summary of those eight reports and actions taken are contained in the table above.