[arin-discuss] Offer to buy IP space

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Because there is "cleared" and then there is "cleared".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_Funds_Availability_Act

Fraudulent checks often take weeks to have the actual fraud turn up.

-r

Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> writes:

> 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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