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<div class="">On 14 Jul 2022, at 6:28 PM, Paul E McNary <<a href="mailto:pmcnary@cameron.net" class="">pmcnary@cameron.net</a>> wrote:</div>
<div class="">You keep using the word fraud.<br class="">
This is not an issue of fraud by my understanding but ARIN POLICY.<br class="">
Please correct your misuse of your language. PLEASE</div>
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<div class="">Paul - </div>
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<div class="">Within the context of the ARIN community and the ARIN-PPML mailing list, the term “fraud”</div>
<div class="">refers to ARIN’s defined <b style="font-style: italic;" class="">internet Number Resource Fraud</b><span style="font-style: italic;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">process</span>, as described here – </div>
<div class=""><<a href="https://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/" class="">https://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/</a>> – and as such “fraud” is indeed the proper</div>
<div class="">term in the context of this discuss. (Please take note of this usage to avoid confusion in the future.). </div>
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<div class="">Note also that (depending on the particular circumstances), there is often actual contractual fraud</div>
<div class="">involved as well – i.e., fraudulent misrepresentations made by a party during entry into the RSA </div>
<div class="">with ARIN in order to obtain or transfer number resources. We do not distinguish because it is a </div>
<div class="">nearly a difference without a distinction when it comes to ARIN’s number resource review processes – </div>
<div class="">the contractual fraud simply being additional element that may result in criminal prosecution after </div>
<div class="">number resource revocation by ARIN. </div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
<div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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