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> Read the following and be alert. If this is a scam, we can
> probably look forward to similar scams in areas other than
> Washington...
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>  -- M. Massi
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>  Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 16:18:44 -0500
>  >From: Scott A. Ward 703-614-4719 <wards@AMOMEGA.ACQ.OSD.MIL>
>  To: Multiple recipients of list COMMUNET
>  Subject: Warning: International Internet Association
>
> A company calling itself the International Internet Association, and billing
> itself as "the largest non-profit provider of free Internet access in the
> world" has started advertizing in the Washington, D.C. area, and offering free
> Internet accounts to individuals who will FAX them, among other things, a
> credit card number.  As an active member of the Member Council of the National
> Capital Area Public Access Network (CapAccess), I wanted to find more about
> this organization that supposedly has offices NOT THREE BLOCKS FROM CAPACCESS.
> Here's the result of my search for the IIA.
>
> 1.  Their address, listed as "Suite 852 - 202 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
Washington
> D.C. 20006", is actually a post office box at Mailboxes, Etc.
>
> 2.  The company lists no incorporation, trademark or service-mark licenses.
>
> 3.  They claim your E-mail address would be <userid>@iia.org.  However:
>       a.  No iia.org is listed in the hq.af.mil hosts table
>       b.  No iia.org is listed in the acq.osd.mil hosts table
>       c.  No iia.org is listed is the INTERNIC 'whois' database
>       d.  No iia.org is listed using the INTERNIC 'netfind' Internet lookup
> In other words, IIA.ORG does NOT, at this time, exist.

This part of the information is wrong.  Here is the iia.org listing from whois:

 whois iia.org
  International Internet Association (IIA2-DOM)
     30 South First Avenue
     Highland Park, NJ 08904

     Domain Name: IIA.ORG

     Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
        Bochicchio, Charleen  (CB45)  char@JOY.ICM.COM
        +1 202 387 5445 (FAX) +1 202 387 5446

     Record last updated on 01-Dec-93.

     Domain servers in listed order:

     MARY.IIA.ORG                 198.4.75.9
     NS.UU.NET                    137.39.1.3


  The InterNIC Registration Services Host ONLY contains Internet Information
  (Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
  Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.

You may note a slight mismatch in the addresses for the two organizations.
I've sent a copy of the original notice to the postmaster at mary.iia.org and
to the zone contact in case this is someone using their name.

   John Wagner