09-05-2010, 08:21 PM
recommendation: do not buy an SSL certificate, or any service from the spammers at Comodo / PositiveSSL / InstantSSL
We received a total of 31 spam emails (subject line: "SSL CERTIFICATE IS EXPIRING. GET A NEW SSL FOR $...") from the spammers at Comodo / PositiveSSL /InstantSSL this weekend advertising their PositiveSSL SSL certificates ....and did I mention the 40 plus spam emails we received from them in August, or the countless unsolicited sales calls from them?
They're sending their spam emails to email addresses like mail@..., admin@... etc. that w've never even used. Their spam sales calls are being made to our store's customer service phone numbers (which is not the same phone number as the domain contact phone number listed on the WHOIS records of the sites they've spammed).
We've never done business with Comodo or any company affiliated with them, and we've never contacted them or signed up for any mailing list offered by them so the mass unsolicited emails from them are definitely spam.
Congratulations boinktards at Comodo, due to your spam emails and phone calls, the 24 SSL certificates we buy annually will always be bought from your competitors not from you.
Link to file FTC complaints if you've been spammed by Comodo:
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm?sid=d1e640&id=d1e697
Complaints may also be filed with the BBB, New Jersey State Attorney General, and Comodo's upstream providers.
The nameservers for the positivessl.com domain name advertised in the emails are comododns.com and comododns.net
Comodo's comododns.com domain name is registered through Dotster. You can file a spam complaint with Dotster at:
https://secure.dotster.com/services/comp...iteid=4798 (file the complaint against comododns.com )
Comodo's comododns.net domain name/name server shows the same UK registrant street address as the positivessl.com name's WHOIS but the registrant of the .net name is listed as "Melih Abdulhayoglu" (the registrant for the comododns.com is listed as "Comodo IP Limited" and the registrant for positivessl.com is listed as "Comodo CA Ltd"). The registrar for the .net name is 123-reg.co.uk. Abuse complaints against comododns.net can be filed by emailing your complaint to: abuse @ 123-reg.co.uk.
edited to add: http://www.google.com/search?q=Melih+Abdulhayoglu
We received a total of 31 spam emails (subject line: "SSL CERTIFICATE IS EXPIRING. GET A NEW SSL FOR $...") from the spammers at Comodo / PositiveSSL /InstantSSL this weekend advertising their PositiveSSL SSL certificates ....and did I mention the 40 plus spam emails we received from them in August, or the countless unsolicited sales calls from them?
They're sending their spam emails to email addresses like mail@..., admin@... etc. that w've never even used. Their spam sales calls are being made to our store's customer service phone numbers (which is not the same phone number as the domain contact phone number listed on the WHOIS records of the sites they've spammed).
We've never done business with Comodo or any company affiliated with them, and we've never contacted them or signed up for any mailing list offered by them so the mass unsolicited emails from them are definitely spam.
Congratulations boinktards at Comodo, due to your spam emails and phone calls, the 24 SSL certificates we buy annually will always be bought from your competitors not from you.
Link to file FTC complaints if you've been spammed by Comodo:
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm?sid=d1e640&id=d1e697
Complaints may also be filed with the BBB, New Jersey State Attorney General, and Comodo's upstream providers.
The nameservers for the positivessl.com domain name advertised in the emails are comododns.com and comododns.net
Comodo's comododns.com domain name is registered through Dotster. You can file a spam complaint with Dotster at:
https://secure.dotster.com/services/comp...iteid=4798 (file the complaint against comododns.com )
Comodo's comododns.net domain name/name server shows the same UK registrant street address as the positivessl.com name's WHOIS but the registrant of the .net name is listed as "Melih Abdulhayoglu" (the registrant for the comododns.com is listed as "Comodo IP Limited" and the registrant for positivessl.com is listed as "Comodo CA Ltd"). The registrar for the .net name is 123-reg.co.uk. Abuse complaints against comododns.net can be filed by emailing your complaint to: abuse @ 123-reg.co.uk.
edited to add: http://www.google.com/search?q=Melih+Abdulhayoglu
