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 C

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/ http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ [1] http://www.verisign.co.uk/ssl/ssl-information-center/ssl-basics/index.html#a16 http://www.verisign.co.uk/ssl/ssl-information-center/ssl-bas...