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by Jamiecon 4951 days ago
Yes I do, although in fairness my experience has been that Verisign and Thawte at least will ring the number you provide at some stage. I guess they also do a Companies House[0] lookup in the UK as they request related details IIRC.

What's more of a scandal is that Verisign at least 'license' their EV certificates to be used on a given number of servers [1]. Now if the 'service' provided is identity verification, that practice is the real scam.

[0] http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/

[1] http://www.verisign.co.uk/ssl/ssl-information-center/ssl-bas...