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John Wagner <jwagner@PRINCETON.EDU> writes:

>> 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

Not only that but the Tel nos are incorrect for NJ
should be 908 for Highland Park
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