[members-discuss] RIPE DB T&C violation by brokers

> On 16 Nov 2019, at 13:04, Sergey Myasoedov <kaa at net-art.cz> wrote:
> 
> Dear RIPE NCC, members,
> 
> I would like to raise an issue of misuse of the RIPE Database by the brokers. I've reported different issues to RIPE NCC, but every time I receive a reassurance that appropriate measures will be taken.
> 
> I am pretty sure that broker agreements and LIR contracts should be reviewed for every case of misuse of the RIPE NCC.
> 
> But this specific broker - Supplity - is still sending spam using the RIPE DB contacts and nothing has happened to them. So I would like to collect more data, whether someone else has reported their spam to NCC. And finally to ask a question why nothing is happened to their broker status.

Hi,

We've seen a number of spam mails from Supplicity in the last two days, all targeted at email addresses only used in the RIPE DB, so it's clear where they get their addresses from.

To make it worse, they're actually using RIPE as sales argument in their spam: 

"SUPPLITY recently registered as an official broker for RIPE, because we were based in the area that the IPv4 transferring business is growing, and Your organization abroad has commercial potential in its unused IPv4 addresses."

I have no idea what this 'offical broker' status means, but spamming RIPE members should be a good reason to revoke it.

Regards,
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