Very wierd- i answered the phone and the lady (with a very thick accent- and very loud background) starts talking- no acknowledging my greeting- just starts in saying her name in NANCY..and bla bla bla- i say hello 2-3 times before she stops reading her script..i ask who she is looking for and she says "your IT manager.." and them immediately asks "is that joe?" i reply- "what is this regarding and who is calling" and she replies- "this is Nancy- NANCY... with comodo- that c-o-m-o-d-o.. calling about the exp ssl license for 123.com" i tell her i can take a message and while she is polite, she was hard to understand and this is an old scam
Yeah, Comodo. We host about 400 different websites and they are CONSTANTLY calling us about SSL certs expiring trying to get us to use them. Wont tell me who they are unless I ask, so I guess a lot of people assume its their Cert provider calling.. Descpicable
Call center uses tools to look for website whose SSL certificates are about to expire. They then proceed to reach out to those companies, aggressively asking if you want to purchase the certificate from them. It is the Comodo Group and this is their sales practice. Not entirely dishonest, but a scummy, annoying tactic to get inexperienced IT people to buy certificates from them. If you are an IT expert, get your certificate renewed according to your companies policy or this group will love calling you over and over.
Ugh... Comodo again. Last time I told them nicely to go away. They prey on companies with expiring SSL certs, as many others here mention. This time I was not nice at all.