ARIN Fraud Reporting Results - 3rd Quarter 2011 [Archived]

Fraud Reports Received

Date/Ticket Number	Report Type	Actions Taken
20110701-F827	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110703-F828	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110713-F842	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110713-F843	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110719-F844	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110722-F829	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110724-F830	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110725-F831	Invalid Whois Information	Confirmed that this was already marked in Whois as invalid
20110727-F832	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110727-F833	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110727-F834	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110728-F848	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110729-F835	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110805-F836	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110808-F849	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110810-F837	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110811-F838	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110815-F839	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110816-F851	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110817-F852	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110818-F853	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110821-F854	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110822-F840	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110823-F841	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110825-F862	Hijacked Block	Researched and found no evidence of hijacking
20110831-F863	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110904-F855	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110906-F864	Invalid Whois Information	Confirmed incorrect phone number and contacted org; they updated phone number in Whois
20110913-F865	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110918-F856	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110919-F857	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110927-F868	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110927-F869	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting
20110929-F886	Outside ARIN Scope	Informed customer issue was outside the scope of ARIN’s Fraud Reporting

Total Fraud reports received this quarter = 34

Investigation Results

ARIN received a total of 34 fraud reports during the 3rd quarter of 2011. There were three reports of potential fraud related to IP number resources registered in the ARIN database. ARIN has researched all of these reports and taken action where appropriate. The summary of those three reports and actions taken are contained in the table above.

Thirty-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.