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Micfo CEO charged with fraud for IP address theft
Looks like Micfo CEO has been charged with fraud
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/charleston-man-and-business-indicted-federal-court-over-9m-fraud
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Well, the end is here for Amir.
That's IP as in IPv4 addresses, not Intellectual property.
735,000 IPv4 addresses apparently. See: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190514_735k_fraudulently_obtained_ip_addresses_have_been_revoked/
Sounds like the waiting list may see some fulfillment! :-)
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Francisco
Good. Micfo network is full of shit, separate from the fraud he committed against ARIN. Spammers, proxies used for CC fraud, etc. After getting tired of banning individual ranges a year or two ago I ended up blocking the network (this was before I blocked some DC networks generally.) Seems like the IPs he got he just handed out to anyone who would pay him no matter what they did with it.
This is my experience with Micfo's network too. It's basically just garbage upon garbage with no legitimate sites hosted there that I know of.
So, are we expecting an influx of weird requests on LET?
hello i need /24 monthly with ability to geo chicago , ipv4 must be on 10 gbps line
Must be single quad core CPU, 8GB RAM, 100Gb disk...y'know...enough to make usage of that /24 block and 10Gbps!
Is Micfo known around here, i.e. related to LET spammer/hosts?
We blacklisted Micfo a long time ago, they host a lot of spammers and vpns.
I hope you aren't referring to me
I just need a /24 block and maybe this will open some up.
I think the CEO was active on WebHostingTalk, not sure about LET though
Credit to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19923748
I'm guessing he got ranges from ARIN and rented them out? Various sources seem to state only 130k sold, the rest rented?
Whats going to happen to the IP address users be they people who bought or rented I wonder?
I highly doubt he is the only person with unique 'idea'.
He sold a /15 of it, or was pending it.
He had a sale of 300k IP's pending, but ARIN stopped it and launched the lawsuit.
Francisco
iirc NordVPN (or was it Windscribe) used Micfo IPs?
Unfortunately not ...
I wouldn't be surprised if this exact case was the reason as to why ARIN suspended the wait list policy in the first place.
While what he did is fucked it's nonviolent so I hope he doesn't see 20+ years as charged.
Yes some of my favorites nordvpn hosts with micro are offline
I see how they afforded this shit.
https://bgp.he.net/net/104.128.18.0/24#_dns
https://bgp.he.net/net/104.128.20.0/24#_dns
https://bgp.he.net/net/104.128.19.0/24#_dns
https://bgp.he.net/net/104.128.24.0/24#_dns
..etc
Better know where you are and what you do then, because this was predictable. Another one bites the dust because they did not leave the US when it was clear SHTF.
For sane laws you clearly never want to have such a lawsuit in the US, which is pretty much true for anything - next to any white collar crime gets you way lower sentence in Europe than US.
This is not the last one, many we all know are already on the way to court but are simply not in the US (Lithuania...who wants to guess...), others are not liable for one or another reason.
h1p/det/heficed?
Point blank, yea.
Elaborate? It's just dns entries
Non-violent yes, victim-less no. His fraud directly impacted other legitimate companies and people not to mention the amount of financial pain and ruin he's cost countless people by allowing other criminals access to his networks/IPs. It would be great if law enforcement could link his company to other crimes because of his actions and I hope they throw the book at him.
Predictable in what way ? What's the difference between what he did with people selling or leasing IP /24 in AIO thread in this forum?
I'm playing devil advocate but he is almost no difference than any of us or providers who sell stuff in this forum.
Isn't he getting the charge because he is big enough fish to fry and he doesn't have politicians in his pocket? Moving outside US won't change
something something NetStack
Just take a look at AS8100 and our friends at ColoCrossing if you wanna see the latest.
Seems it's create generic name in South Africa, Digital Energy Technologies, etc under NetStack, keep requesting, and transfer out to ARIN for use in the US.
tired: foreigners creating companies in delaware, etc. to game ARIN
wired: creating companies in south africa draining them dry (NetStack / H1P for years)
bet CC is hoping that check from Deluxe cleared
He obtained the IPs by fraudulent means (unlike most of the people in the AIO thread) and he's probably being taken to court because of the value of the assets. If he lied to get a /22 they'd probably just close his account and not think twice about it but with the IP exhaustion he basically swindled ARIN out of millions of dollars of assets while legitimate companies who played by the rules and didn't use their IP space for illegal activities are screwed hence why they're making an example out of him.
Honestly I still don't get what's the fraud related to (apart creating a company composed by false officers).
" used to deceive ARIN and to fraudulently obtain IP address rights from ARIN" --> How to? What's the crime exactly?
Isn't it legit and what's wrong with it? Many providers rent/sell them out; we have been seeing so many threads both here and on WHT concerning such thing.
Obviously I'm not defending him at all but I'm just trying to understand what happened exactly, I'm curious to know it.
Not a problem at all.
It is a problem when it's all fraudulent though
Francisco