[AusNOG] ACMA License renewals and Spam Complaints system - massive issue to be aware of.

[Troy]

This is terrifying...

Did they tell you what they were matching on? Just your name?

I can't see how they are doing any CRM matching to update - there's a lot of people with the same name.




**Regards, Troy**

Brevity is the elixir of life.


Father Hector McGrath, Pixie 2020






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On 4 Apr 2022, 1:47 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr < rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:

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> A coworker called me last night to ask why I'd let one of my Callsigns expire. A quick search of my mailbox showed that indeed, I was missing the 3-month-before reminder, the 1-month-before invoice, and the week-after 'hey this just expired' emails.
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> I called them this morning to find out what on earth happened, and the very helpful fellow looked through their CRM for me, and said 'oh, you updated it from [rendrag at rendrag.net][rendrag_rendrag.net] to <redacted>@[pinegap.net][] in June last year'. Cue a couple of minutes of absolute confusion from me, until I started running through how they could even have possibly had THAT particular email, which hadn't been used for seven years until last year when the company it was used with had a breach (or sold customer details, they are heavily denying both) - and then realised that before I redirected that address to /dev/null on the mailserver, I lodged a spam complaint through the ACMA site.
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> After discussing THAT with the fellow a bit, it turns out that the ACMA maintains a CRM for all clients - which includes all spam complaints via their website. AND they cannot hold more than one email address for each client. SO - if you go to their spam reporting form, and report a spam email, and provide your name and mobile number, that will get matched to your existing client record, and they will UPDATE your email address to match the one you just reported spam on...
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> Personally, I'll never be reporting spam via the ACMA again, because that was almost disastrous. It was VERY close to the 60 days limit after expiry. Given how many folks in here hold other forms of licenses and permits through the ACMA, I thought it was worth highlighting this stupidly dangerous process. (I've now added Calendar Reminders for each of my licenses, so that I can chase them up if they don't arrive - since basically anyone can punch in any ACMA client's name and phone number into a spam complaint, and trigger a change of their email address in the CRM...)
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> Damien Gardner Jnr
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> [rendrag at rendrag.net][rendrag_rendrag.net] \- http://www.rendrag.net/
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[rendrag_rendrag.net]: mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net
[pinegap.net]: http://pinegap.net
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