Got a call from 201-716-4468 today.. Male on other end seemed to be faking tone of his voice asked to speak to "the person who handles security for this website" and when told "how may I help you" he hung up.
The Company is called COMODO and is a doirect competitor of Verisign and Network Solutions.
It appears that they are very aggressive in making you switch from your current SSL provider.
Here is a direct contact Jill Fox: 201-716-4761.
I just got a call from that number. The caller said he had called from Comodo, an SSL CA company. I was asked if I am responsible for [domainname].com and how much do I pay for the wildcard cert. I told them it's free because I don't need a commercial cert ATM. He said thank you and good bye. I guess they wanted to offer a cheaper alternative. Hope they won't call me again.
I received a call today from 09999-100-10. Young man with Indian accent claimed he was from Microsoft Tech Support (apparently Microsoft are outsourcing their Tech services) and that my computer was infected with a virus that had disabled all my Windows services and applications. I was immediately wary and tried to get more info from him, but he managed to convince me to allow him to connect remotely to my computer using an open source program called "Teamviewer". He ran me through my system event viewer log that had over 15000 events, most of which had occurred in the wee small hours of the day while my computer was idle and as far as I knew was not connected to the internet (I always disconnect when not in use). Finally after about an hour of me being evasive and him telling me my computer would crash eventually (and it probably will....eventually) he advised me that my SSL Certificate needed to be renewed and I would be able to do this online through a form or website he would provide or link me to. I would not need to give him my credit card details, all I needed to do was fill out the form. That's when I told him he was full of s#*t and hung up. Now I am pretty worried that I have given him enough time to secrete some malware, Trojan or easter-egg thingy which will completely stuff my system.
received call today, but caller ID said *DRP Station 86640. Left message saying SSL certificate about to expire, call 201-716-4468. Comodo company. No names mentioned. How do they mask caller ID to make it look like an internal call?
Yes, I just received a call about this today, This is for a SSL cert renewal reminder as I use them, the company is actually THAWTE which resells SSL certs