Dear Ronald, Thank you for this eyeopener email of yours. AK On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 12:19 AM Arnaud AMELINA <[email protected]> wrote:
> English version : > > Mr Ronald Guilmette, > > > *If everything you report is true, then, on behalf of the entire AFRINIC > community, I would like to express our gratitude to you. For all the > information provided. We promise to hold accountable the Members of the > Board as well as the CEO and his staff of AFRINIC, for the apparent > inaction to which you refer. * > > > *In light of what I just read, we understand some knee-jerk reactions from > some members of the community, hum! They are just defending themselves. * > > > * We will do what is necessary to ensure that what is for AFRINIC returns > to AFRINIC. * > > * Good evening to all.* > > *Regards * > > -- > Arnaud > > > > Le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 à 22:59, Arnaud AMELINA <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> Monsieur Ronald Guilmette, >> >> Si tout ce que vous rapportez est avéré, alors, je voudrais au nom de >> toute la Communauté d'AFRINIC, vous manifester toute notre gratitude. Pour >> toutes les informations fournies. Nous vous promettons de demander des >> comptes aux Membres du Board ainsi qu'au CEO et son Staff d'AFRINIC, sur >> l'apparente inaction à laquelle vous faites allusion. >> >> À la lumière de tout ce que je viens de lire, nous comprenons certaines >> réactions épidermiques de certains membres de la communauté, hum ! Ils ne >> font que se défendre. >> >> Nous ferons le nécessaire pour que ce qui est à AFRINIC, revienne à >> AFRINIC. >> >> Bonne soirée à tous. >> >> Cordialement >> >> -- >> Arnaud >> >> Le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 à 18:34, Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> >> a écrit : >> >>> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide. >>> >>> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well... >>> absolutely nothing. He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC >>> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because >>> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know >>> what's really going on. >>> >>> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and >>> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long >>> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to >>> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that >>> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as >>> we speak. >>> >>> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may >>> perhaps find new and interesting. >>> >>> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to >>> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy) >>> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already >>> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports >>> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za. That's one hell of a >>> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate! So where is it all and why hasn't >>> AFRINIC reclaimed it? (Note: I'm not even talking about the stolen >>> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet >>> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing >>> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen >>> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear >>> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.) >>> >>> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million >>> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor >>> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim >>> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen. What are they >>> waiting for? An engraved invitation? Do they just need to have either >>> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any >>> possible legal heat off them? >>> >>> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical >>> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block. Please note that the name >>> "ITC", >>> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan >>> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity >>> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth >>> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his >>> thefts... >>> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact >>> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still >>> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year. >>> >>> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3 >>> >>> The bottom line here is clear. The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one >>> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently >>> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA, >>> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid: >>> >>> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414 >>> >>> It should be noted that some time after he received this large chunk of >>> property that was stolen by Ernest from AFRINIC... a chunk of real estate >>> worth well over $5 million dollars, USD, at current market prices... Mr. >>> Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing in one big chunk (for one big >>> payday): >>> >>> >>> https://www.facebook.com/mailchimp/posts/im-trying-to-get-in-touch-with-whomever-is-in-charge-of-your-ip-addresses-i-own-/10152414268080777/ >>> >>> I want everyone to note also that, the last time I checked anyway, not >>> a single IP address of this huge IPv4 block was being routed to or used >>> anywhere even close to the AFRINIC region. >>> >>> So there are several problems here. >>> >>> First and foremost, the history indicates quite persuasively that this >>> /14 >>> block was stolen by Ernest. >>> >>> Second, Eddy and the board appear to already have known this to be true >>> for some time now, but just as in the case of the legacy blocks, they >>> have >>> been dragging their feet and steadfastly AVOIDING doing anything about >>> it, >>> simply because this is the path of least resistance for them. It does >>> not >>> appear that they care at all about what is right, or about doing what is >>> right, >>> but they do quite obviously care about minimizing their own hassle >>> factor, >>> and they are apparently afraid that if they do the Right Thing and take >>> back >>> this blatantly stolen block... which was apparently sold by Ernest on the >>> black market, that Mr. Abizeid will complain about that, and maybe even >>> file suit, as Mr. Cohen has done. So justice and fairness for the rest >>> of >>> the AFRINIC members goes out the window, sacrificed for the sake of >>> expediency. >>> >>> Lastly, as I have said, the last time I checked, which was admittedly >>> some >>> months ago now, not a single scrap of this /14 IPv4 block was routed to >>> anywhere >>> within a thousand miles of the AFRINIC region, thus placing this >>> "member" in >>> clear violation of even the minamalist a and remarkably weak >>> requirements of >>> the AFRINIC Bylaws which state explicitly that AFRINIC is to serve >>> members >>> who provide AT LEAST *some* token level of service to the AFRINIC region. >>> >>> If Mr. Abizeid is indeed failing to do that, then his resources can and >>> should >>> be reclaimed just on that basis alone, even if AFRINIC elects to totally >>> ignore the even more significant fact that this /14 was quite evidently >>> stolen >>> by Ernest. >>> >>> So why hasn't Eddy reclaimed the 196.52.0.0/14 block? It's an utter >>> mystery >>> to me. But like I said, maybe he has just been waiting for Jan or >>> myself to >>> break the ice about this, so that he wouldn't have to. Now that this >>> theft >>> is also out in the open however, he's got no more excuses, and he should >>> reclaim this stolen block for the benefit of AFRINIC's legitimate members >>> just as he has already done with all of the other Ernest "ITC" stolen >>> blocks. >>> >>> And speaking of which, I encourage you all to take a look also at the >>> WHOIS >>> history of the 165.231.0.0/16 block, which originally belonged to a >>> legitimate Internet Service Provider in Guinea, but which, on 2010-10-08, >>> somehow magically also ended up registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" >>> company: >>> >>> https://pastebin.com/raw/dJjdGYLm >>> >>> After being registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" company for a couple of >>> years, >>> on 2012-11-06 this valuable /16 block, itself worth well over $1,3 >>> million >>> USD onthe open market, was once again magically reassigned, this time to >>> something or someone whose name is allegedly "Fiber Grid Inc." and which >>> is allegedly domiciled in the Seychelles Islands. >>> >>> In this case, the apparent beneficiary of Ernest's corrupt largess was a >>> certain Mr. Deepak Mehta, a gentleman apparently of Indian ancestry whose >>> current physical location is somewhat uncertain but who appears to have >>> incorporated multiple businesses, including one named "Fiber Grid" (as >>> well >>> as an apparently failed catering business) in the Baltic nation of >>> Estonia... >>> rather far from the AFRINIC region, I would say. >>> >>> FIBER GRID OÜ >>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C >>> >>> Sonjara OÜ >>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12626354-Sonjara-O%C3%9C >>> >>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C >>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/14097138-O%C3%9C-Asian-Express >>> >>> I have no idea what other credits he may have to his name, but speaking >>> just personally, my only knowledge of this Mr. Deepak Mehta and his >>> character has been derived from a public blog post by network security >>> journalist Brian Krebs, published back on August 26, 2016, and purporting >>> to show Mr. Mehta participating in a multi-party chat session where the >>> one and only topic of discussion was the planning for an upcoming >>> criminal DDoS attack on the well-known anti-spam outfit Spamhaus: >>> >>> >>> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/inside-the-attack-that-almost-broke-the-internet/ >>> >>> Note that whereas the evidence indicates, to me anyway, that the >>> 165.231.0.0/16 block is yet another block that was purloined from the >>> AFRINIC free pool (and thus from the AFRINIC membership) by Ernest. >>> After that, the 165.231.0.0/16 block somehow made its way into the >>> hands of Mr. Mehta. >>> >>> Note also however that that one /16 block, valuable and large though >>> it may be, is quite certainly not the only valuable AFRINIC IPv4 >>> address block currently assigned to Mr. Mehta's apparently Estonia-based >>> "Fiber Grid" company. Far from it! Despite neither he nor his company >>> being the least bit African, or even within a thousand miles of Africa, >>> as far as I can tell, Mr. Mehta, via some process that remains totally >>> cloaked in secrecy, has somehow managed to amass a grand total of nearly >>> a million (983,040) AFRINIC IPv4 addresses, worth well over $20 milliion >>> USD. >>> >>> The full list of Mr. Mehta's assigned AFRINIC blocks is as follows: >>> >>> 165.231.0.0/16 >>> 196.48.0.0/16 >>> 196.56.0.0/16 >>> 196.57.0.0/16 >>> 196.58.0.0/16 >>> 196.59.0.0/16 >>> 196.196.0.0/16 >>> 196.197.0.0/16 >>> 196.198.0.0/16 >>> 196.199.0.0/16 >>> 196.240.0.0/15 >>> 196.242.0.0/15 >>> 196.244.0.0/16 >>> 196.245.0.0/16 >>> 196.247.0.0/16 >>> >>> How a non-African, such as Mr. Mehta, who, like Mr. Abizeid, appears to >>> provide exactly -zero- services to the AFRINIC region, somehow managed to >>> be awarded almost a million AFRINIC IPv4 addresses is, quite frankly, >>> more >>> than a little puzzling. It is altogether apparent however that it is in >>> the interests of AFRINIC staff and board members to keep the entire >>> process >>> by which such awards were made, and by which such awards are still being >>> made, >>> entirely hidden from public view. Certainly, Ernest Byaruhanga would not >>> now be enjoying a comfortable retirement in his hilltop estate in Uganda >>> if >>> the process by which AFRINIC IP addresses had been awarded within the >>> AFRINIC >>> region had been transparent from the beginning. >>> >>> Nor would Mr. Abzeid and Mr. Mehta still be enjoying -their- apparently >>> Ernest-provided AFRINIC blocks if AFRINIC management and the board >>> decided, >>> even at this late date, to come clean about what they are or, more >>> properly, >>> are not doing to really clean up the whole mess. >>> >>> Of course transparency, even at this late date would likely not help the >>> interests of Mr. Lu Heng either. Mr. Heng, as at least some of you may >>> know, as a 24 year old mainland Chinese kid with no apparent history of >>> networking experience whatsoever, somehow managed to be awarded two >>> giagantic /12 AFRINIC IPv4 blocks as well as two even more gigantic >>> AFRINIC /11 blocks (total current market value, over $150 million USD), >>> some of which he has since doled out to the very same people who are >>> currently aiding and abetting Mr. Cohen's ongoing misuse of the AFRINIC >>> legacy blocks... the very ones which AFRINIC has so far been dragging its >>> feet on and refusing to reassigned back to their rightful owners: >>> >>> https://bgp.he.net/AS18013#_prefixes >>> https://bgp.he.net/AS137951#_prefixes >>> >>> Note that AS18013 - Asline (Hong Kong) and AS137951 - Clayer (Hong Kong) >>> are, as we would say here inthe States, effectively "joined at the hip", >>> that the latter is routing much stolen AFRINIC legacy space, and that >>> the former has leased or purchased quite a lot of IPv4 space from Mr. >>> Heng's Cloud Innovation Ltd. >>> >>> I tried asking Mr. Heng via private email why he would be supporting >>> criminals in Hong Kong who are adiding and abetting Mr. Cohen and his >>> ongoing thefts from the AFRINIC region, but I guess either my email fell >>> into Mr. Heng's spam folder or else he just didn't much feel like >>> discussing the matter. In any case, I received no reply from him to my >>> recent polite inquiry. >>> >>> To summarize, there has been one hell of a lot of crooked crap that has >>> gone on in AFRINIC, over time, and it isn't even nearly all cleaned up >>> yet. Worse, management and the board do not seem to have the will to >>> actually and fully clean up the mess, once and for all. This tends to >>> cast a certain degree of suspicion on them and their motivations also. >>> >>> The fundamental problem is and has been the utter and total lack of >>> transparency, and neither the current board nor current management has >>> lifted a single finger to address that. One might get the impression >>> that they really don't want to. >>> >>> If this is the way you folks who are the dues paying members of AFRINC >>> want to run your region, then you can have all of the corruption and >>> lethargic and cowardly inaction you want. That's your choice. I just >>> wish that you all would stop selling, stealing, or giving away IP >>> addresses to Internet criminals who are going to use those addresses >>> to spam and DDoS us innocent and law abiding folks in other regions. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> rfg >>> >>> >>> P.S. After more than a year of trying, I am -still- being stonewalled >>> with respect to my request to have access to full historical AFRINIC >>> WHOIS >>> data. I can only surmise that the board and/or management really don't >>> want me finding any MORE evidence of historical insider corruption, above >>> and beyond the gigantic piles of such I have already found and >>> documented. >>> >>> As I say, it is for you, the dues paying members of AFRINIC, to decide if >>> you think this is reasonable or not, and to pro-actively ask that I be >>> given >>> full access if you think that would be productive. All I can do, as an >>> outsider, is to hope that someday either the AFRINIC board or AFRINC >>> management >>> will stop trying to play "hide the ball" and will allow the full facts to >>> come out regarding everything that has gone on. >>> >>> But that's up to you folks.. the dues paying members... not me. >>> >>> >>> P.P.S. Mr. Abzeid may be perfectly happy to obtain his IPv4 address >>> space >>> from the AFRINIC region, but I rather doubt that he would be at all >>> amenable >>> to having any of the Black residents of the AFRINIC region date his >>> daughter. >>> You see, Mr. Abzeid has had a longstanding membership on a certain US >>> web site >>> called Gab.Com, described by Wikipedia as (among other things) a white >>> supremacist social networking web site: >>> >>> https://gab.com/chad_abizeid >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> afnog mailing list >>> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog >> >> _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > -- Website <http://www.unilorin.edu.ng>, Weekly Bulletin <http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/index.php/bulletin> UGPortal <http://uilugportal.unilorin.edu.ng/> PGPortal <https://uilpgportal.unilorin.edu.ng/>
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