[nsp] Switch Fraud

[Eric Knudson]

You can bounce the serial number off of the service contract center:

www.cisco.com/go/scc

Just choose "serial number" in the quick search dropdown.

Eric

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lexus" <lexus at ince.st>
To: "'Sam Stickland'" <sam_ml at spacething.org>; "'Ryan O'Connell'"
<ryan at complicity.co.uk>
Cc: "'Cisco Nsp'" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 5:56 AM
Subject: RE: [nsp] Switch Fraud


| Sam,
|
| There are a lot of "fake" cisco boxes out there.  A lot of used equip
| reseller requires a valid serial number check.
|
| You can check/verify the serial number with cisco.  I think you will
| need cco access, exactly how to do it, I am not too sure, but I know it
| exists.
|
| -ken
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
| [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sam Stickland
| Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:56 AM
| To: Ryan O'Connell
| Cc: Cisco Nsp
| Subject: Re: [nsp] Switch Fraud
|
| Have checked back with the client, and it turns out what they are
| actually
| saying is that the system serial number reported by Sh ver is different
| from
| the system serial number on the sticker on the back of the chasis and
| the
| sticker on the box.
|
| Also the MAC address sticker on the chasis blatently isn't a mac address
| (or
| if it is it's the first MAC address I've seen that's has H's and V's in
| it!).
|
| Sam
|
| Ryan O'Connell wrote:
| > Sam Stickland wrote:
| >
| >> Have anyone ever come across any Cisco switches that have one serial
| >> number reported by 'show version' and a different serial number on
| >> the back of the case?
| >>
| >> A client has just received a shipment of 8 of these, and it seems
| >> quite suspicious.
| >>
| >>
| >
| > This is quite normal, one is the serial number of the motherboard and
| > the other the serial number of the chassis.
|
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