New subject: Suspected Spam or Phishing Request through the AMPR portal

31 Dec 2015

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  Subject:
 [44net] Suspected Spam or Phishing Request through the AMPR portal
 From:
 Elias Basse &lt;kd5jfe(a)gmail.com&gt;
 Date:
 12/31/2015 02:17 PM

 To:
 AMPRNet Working Group Email &lt;44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu&gt;

 All,

 Received a strange request today for an allocation.

 You have received a request for an IP allocation from:
 Name: Rickey Francis
 Email:Admin@abc-hosters.com  <mailto:Admin@abc-hosters.com>
 Callsign: RSF8192

 The request details are as follows:
 Type: user
 Network: 44.108.230.0 / 32
 Connection: TUNNEL

 Please note that this has an invalid callsign, email address that is a bit hard to
believe, and this points to a hosting company somewhere.

 Anyone have any ideas???

 I Rejected it solely on the basis that it does not have a valid amateur radio callsign
attached and I suspect that they are trying to use the address space for personal use
(i.e. they are a hosting company)  I only see one valid Rickey Francis in the QRZ database
and that is in Washington state.

 Has anyone else received any strange request via the portal?

 Thanks!

 Best Regards,

 Elias Basse
 KD5JFE
 Lousiana Amprnet Coordinator 
Was there no spammy message in the free text area of the request?
(this is forwarded as a separate attachment by the portal)

Normally spammers use methods like this (filling in forms on websites) to spread some form
of spam, at the
minimum some URL of a website they want you to go to.  But maybe in this case it was not
spam or phishing but an
attempt to get something registered.  Some users are very confused about how to use the
AMPR net.

Unfortunately when you do a reject on a portal request that fact is always mailed back to
the e-mail contact, I have asked for
a way to silently remove requests so invalid requests like this can be deleted without
resulting in a mail to an innocent person
or invoke another reply by the requester.
I think it has not yet been implemented.

Rob

Re: [44net] Suspected Spam or Phishing Request through the AMPR portal