[arin-discuss] Offer to buy IP space

[Owen DeLong]

Why would anyone ever send a partial refund before the original
check cleared?

Owen

On Jul 2, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> 
> I'm positive that this kind of "offer" will work like this, they
> will send you a big check that you will deposit, then they will
> say "oops the check was too large could you refund the difference"
> then you send them a smaller check for the difference, and then
> they disappear and their original check will bounce.
> 
> If I had a nickel for every time I had to explain that scheme
> to a customer....
> 
> Ted
> 
> On 7/2/2010 12:47 PM, Mike Berger wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure the people who solicit address space like this don't
>> understand route aggregation.
>> 
>> On 7/2/10 2:34 PM, Radzwon, Tony wrote:
>>> I just received a similar offer, It must be some hoax as they are
>>> trying to get IP space I have assigned to customers already. Also
>>> strange is they are looking at a /24 in the middle of one of my /15
>>> CIDR's, so needless to say we would not sell it if we could.
>>> 
>> 
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