Dear sender, We have received your mail and will get back to you as soon as possible. Best regards, Network Operations Centre Belastingdienst / DataCentre ServicesYep, that is my point :) These addresses are either scraped from WHOIS or from the list of members. The list of members has this on every member page:

 Apart from agreed Internet operational purposes, no part of this information may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, recorded or otherwise), without prior permission of the RIPE NCC. Any use of this information to target advertising, or similar activities, is explicitly forbidden and may be prosecuted. The RIPE NCC requests notification of any such activities or suspicions thereof.

And this kind of spam quite obviously is not "agreed internet operational purposes". Example: https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/data/nl.ripencc-cs.html -Cynthia On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:03 PM Pavel Polyakov <p.polyakov+ripe@urdn.com.ua> wrote: Cynthia Revström via members-discuss <members-discuss@ripe.net> wrote:

My question is, has anyone else received this same email or was it just a one-off?

I did too. But I think this happens because your LIR email address is published in the whois of your organization object. At least, this is why it happened in my case. -- PP _______________________________________________ members-discuss mailing list members-discuss@ripe.net https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/noc%40belastingdienst... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ De Belastingdienst stelt e-mail niet open voor aanvragen, aangiften, bezwaarschriften, verzoeken, klachten, ingebrekestellingen en soortgelijke formele berichten. Dit bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Het bericht kan vertrouwelijke informatie bevatten waarvoor de fiscale geheimhoudingsplicht geldt. Als u dit bericht per abuis hebt ontvangen, wordt u verzocht het te verwijderen en de afzender te informeren. The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration does not accept filings, requests, appeals, complaints, notices of default or similar formal notices, sent by email. This message is solely intended for the addressee. It may contain information that is confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete this message and notify the sender.