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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Arrogant, Unpleasant, Unsavoury, not nice people or organisation, read their website text!!! They hit the big ISP's and hurt the little people in the process. They do not have the decency or courtesy... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

uceprotect.net is a scamming blacklist. It lists ranges IP addresses and their website gives no indication for why this has happened. As you can expect, you can be delisted if you pay them!! It's not... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

uceprotect.net is a one-man organisation. He lists large blocks of IP addresses for no reason, just to extort people for about $100 do get delisted, without any due dilligence whatsover. In a way,... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

UCEPROTECT3 is a huge scam and should never be used

UCEPROTECT is a well known scam. One man, who doesn't reveal his real name because he's a cowardly scammer, is behind this scheme. He adds every IP address owned by large hosting companies to his blacklist, and then asks for money to de-list in a timely fashion. I have 90+ websites that are listed on his UCEPROTECT3 which means my billing emails and etc are not reaching many clients. I have not spammed anyone, my IP is innocent, but they have blacklisted every single IP address used by my (very reputable and excellent) hosting company.

There is no guarantee that you won't be listed again if you pay for delisting.

Again, I never spammed anyone - my IP address is just owned by a company that this scammer has targeted for his extortion.

This has been an ongoing battle with EVERY hosting company we have used in the last decade or more. UCEPROTECT3 lists EVERY major web hosting company's IP blocks, no matter if specific IP's are capable of sending mail or not.

His website is full of threatening language as well as insults and bullying against his victims. This malignant scam artist needs legal action taken against him and to be held accountable for his crimes against small businesses.

August 16, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

EXTORTION

Those people are scammers, my whole /16 IP range was blacklisted because of one address. A /16 subnet is 65536 IP addresses, and of course I didn't send any spam, also I have DMARC, SPF and DKIM records.

This is clearly unprofessional, they allow you to whitelist your IP but they want a monthly fee of 25 CHF.

They don't even try to hide it, here are some excerpts from their website (https##www[dot]uceprotect[dot]net/en/index.php?m=7&s=8)

> "YOU ARE LOSING YOUR RIGHT TO EXPRESSDELIST YOUR ASN IF YOU ARE STUPID AND CLAIMING THIS WOULD BE BLACKMAIL, EXTORTION, SCAM OR SIMILAR [TRUSTPILOT BLOCKED THIS PART]"

> "Threatening us with legal action is just ridiculous and will have the consequence that your message will be published by us as Cart00ney.
Expect that to cause additional damage to your reputation, so think twice before playing the Cart00ney card."

They have a hall of fame where they expose and insult people who have dared to claim the whitelisting of their IP address.

> "People with a brain would simply fix their systems after getting listed for abuse.
Stupid losers are different.
They wrongly believe that the Internet was made for spamming and therfore they try to get listings removed by announcing legal action.
Those who are too young and uneducated, or that can't afford an non-existing lawyer ;-) seem to threaten with [TRUSTPILOT BLOCKED THIS PART] storms on "social media" instead.
Writing such cart00neys one becomes subject of public ridicule and deserves to be banned from the Internet forever.
We recommend to firewall those lamerz on sight."

> "It's been almost 10 years since someone was stupid enough to spam on our sponsors and cry over us and our methods.
This time, however, we have a premiere: A Woman
Actually, it reads more like a brat than a woman, because she seriously thinks she can achieve something with us or our sponsors by threatening a [TRUSTPILOT BLOCKED THIS PART].
Ultimately, something like this could be extremely expensive for a brat who believes that she has to regulate things emotionally rather than objectively.

We assume that her favorite color is PINK, and that's why we have shown her gurgles in PINK. Our comments are in black.

After all, it is extremely stupid to spread lies that anyone who can read can simply dismantle as lies on our website."

It is infuriating to see that MICROSOFT is using this blacklist provider!!! If you have any problem with this blacklist provider just ignore them.

August 3, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not trust this blacklist provider

Do not trust this blacklist provider. It lists your mail server even if there never was any abuse with it (they even tell you this) and asks you for money to de-list it. Honestly: if it is all about reducing spam -- why would you charge someone for whitelisting instead of checking yourself if there is something suspicious going on with that specific mail server?

July 22, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scam

Scam, just ignore them and any other that require money to delist it. They put you on blacklist and request money to delist it.

July 17, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely an extortion site protected…

Absolutely an extortion site protected by authorization.
they listed good sites as spam without any reason just by ip sub-net(a range of cloud servers)?????
They even boasted that requests to delist is futile!!
Why didn't government sanction such an organization!!

June 16, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Uceprotect needs a regulating body to put them out of business

We are a 6 month old startup.We do not do campaigns nor send marketing emails. All we do is respond to people who sign up for trials through our digital advertising spend SEO and try to onboard them. Yet, we are always on this companies blacklist. I asked them to provide one email that someone blacklisted our firm, and then continue with your childish website asking for money to be delisted. My detest for these people is beyond comprehension, and their website in trying to communicate with them is childish as well. Yet they have some power that needs corrected.

April 13, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What a joke

What a joke! We did a test and created a new server with clean IP and then blocked all ports (just in case) and just left it there. After 3 days the IP was blocked by UCEPROTECT. If you ask how they found the new server my main hypothesis is that they track my cloud hosting provider somehow, because every time we created a server after a few days is was blacklisted for NO reason from UCEPROTEC. Don't believe me? Search Google for UCEPROTECT SCAM and then read the hundreds of complaints.

March 13, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scam RBL list that GOOGLE Gmail uses…

Scam RBL list that GOOGLE Gmail uses now!

Our mail server is blacklisted because they blacklisted a subnet that our server is on. So because we own a single IP in a block of 65,000 others we are getting blacklisted. What makes matters worse is we cannot sell our product to gmail users now because of this. And UCEProtect ransomware expects us to pay 400CFH (swiss francs) to get our single ip address delisted. Utter scam/UCEProtect that google now allows.

February 22, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is an outright scam

This is an outright scam. They block gigantic ranges of ip addresses claiming spam is coming from and demands money for removal. The accuracy of such a service is so low no email provider or admin in their right mind would use. Do not pay to be delisted.

January 2, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just another scammer...

uceprotect.net is a one-man organisation.
He lists large blocks of IP addresses for no reason, just to extort people for about $100 do get delisted, without any due dilligence whatsover.
In a way, it's like ransomware: even if you pay, you could be listed again in the next second.
No ISP or email provider should be using the uceprotect blacklist, as it generates 99.99% false positives.

September 27, 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not worth one star

Not worth one star. It's a scam blacklisting site. Pay them money to remove your particular IP address from the IP range of your provider no matter how many new IP addresses you get from the same provider.

July 29, 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not pay them for delisting it's a SCAM!

This is supposed to be a black list to help fight spam or other kinds of abuse. However, they randomly block servers and hold them, hostage, for 7 days. If you want to get off their black list before 7 days you will need to pay them.

this is a scam taking innocent companies' IP addresses hostage, and demanding ransom for delisting.

Luckily serious email providers on the market do not use this scammer.

June 26, 2022
Unprompted review
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