I’ve been getting a lot of search engine traffic from people searching for “united collections bureau”. The first instances of this traffic came back when i wrote a little post about them contacting me, and harassing me whilst believing I was my father. After noticing the hits tonight, I did a little grep, and found that they were still hitting the blog, and this time I found that they actually have their own swip’d block of ip addresses.

Here’s a little information for the nerds out there who are looking for information about them:

root@bonkers[/home/imikey] $ jwhois “UNITED COLLECTION BUREAU” @whois.arin.net -n
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
UNITED COLLECTION BUREAU INC (UCB-12)
UNITED COLLECTION BUREAU INC SPRINTLINK (NET-65-168-38-176-1) 65.168.38.176 - 65.168.38.191
UNITED COLLECTION BUREAU INC SPRINTLINK (NET-63-175-135-128-1) 63.175.135.128 - 63.175.135.255

root@bonkers[/home/imikey] $ jwhois UCB-12 @whois.arin.net -n
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]

OrgName: UNITED COLLECTION BUREAU INC
OrgID: UCB-12
Address: 5620 SOUTHWYCK BLVD
City: TOLEDO
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43614
Country: US
Comment:
RegDate: 2004-08-11
Updated: 2004-08-11

AdminHandle: GLU6-ARIN
AdminName: lucas, gb
AdminPhone: +1-419-725-5353
AdminEmail: gblucas@ucbinc.com

TechHandle: GLU6-ARIN
TechName: lucas, gb
TechPhone: +1-419-725-5353
TechEmail: gblucas@ucbinc.com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-01-23 19:10
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They’re probably going to come across this post some time soon. I’d just like to tell the guys that this info is available to anyone with internet access, and absolutely no laws were broken while obtaining this information.