Introducing brand-new xtracomponents.com scam!

We just found out that ComponentForge simple change their name to XtraComponents(.com) and are back online doing their dirty business.  You might have noticed that their previous fraudulent websites - componentforge.com, safabyte.com and xtremeui.com - are no longer in a very good shape. In fact, they have been mostly non-functional for several weeks now. Are they running out of the money the stole already?

 

They registered their new domain name only six days ago and now they are offering stolen copies of Rebex FTP/SSL and Rebex SFTP for sale again. Interestingly, they don't have any other components in their portfolio yet. Why? Perhaps because it takes a lot of time to rename all the namespaces and classes – yes, they dropped their previous NetXtreme brand and call their offerings "Xtra FTP Pro Suite", "Xtra SFTP (SSH Secure FTP)", "Xtra FTP", "Xtra SCP" and "Xtra Proxy" now.

 

Earlier today, they started appearing in Google search:  * site:xtracomponents.com

 

Their new fake identity is John Carban. They even moved their virtual office from Nebraska to Kentucky! I am sure thay will be pretty disappointed tomorrow when they realize we already found out because it looks like lot of work and effort went into their latest name change. But they still didn't have enough time to redesign their website - if you were ComponentForge's or Safabyte's customer, I'm sure you will still recognize it.

 

Update 2009-12-16: XtraComponents just removed Microsoft Certified Partner logo from their website. See http://post.ly/FI3o

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Hello,

I'm glad to see you here. However, the XtraComponents company was found to deliver exclusive .NET Components and they are completely 100% our software that are developed by our developers. If you do not believe me, simply download and install our software. There is nothing similar to yours.

By the way, I would want to inform you that, we are on the way to get the legal software copyright certificate from our government.

— xtra
> I hope they dont delete my posts here. If so, they actually want to hide the truth.
Of course not. We will simply ask you questions you can't really answer. Here they go:

1. Can you prove that your company (XtraComponents) exists? We tried searching http://apps.sos.ky.gov/business/obdb/%28S%28pij3yiyqrrdsqr455rxjzda4%29%29/default.aspx but found no trace of it. Please explain.
2. Can you prove that you are in fact a Microsoft Certified Partner, as you claim on your website?
3. The founders and owners of your company are nowhere to be found. Why? A linkedin.com profile would be nice. At least one that is older that a month.
4. You claim to have a lot of corporate customers already. Can you prove that any of the companies featured at your website actually uses your software?

All these questions would be easy to answer if you were a legitimate company. So are you going to remove that Microsoft logo now? :-)

— Rebex
> I'm glad to see you here.
We too! :-)
However, I'm not sure whether you are the "real" fake Mr. Carban or just some of your former customers making fun of you ;-)

> However, the XtraComponents company was found to deliver exclusive
> .NET Components
This sentence strongly suggests you are not an American because "company was found" is grammatically incorrect. Quite strange for someone called "John", isn't it?
Anyway, do you claim that ComponentForge, Safabyte and XtraComponents are unrelated companies?

> and they are completely 100% our software that are developed by our
> developers.
Well, we have not really expected you to come here and confirm you stole everything ;-)
But don't worry, we will post an update to http://cheated.by.safabyte.net/evidence.aspx later today.

> If you do not believe me, simply download and install our software.
> There is nothing similar to yours.
We did. Sadly, we found out that it's still based on Rebex code, although you changed lot of things again to hide the evidence. But you still have not changed it enough.

> By the way, I would want to inform you that, we are on the way to
> get the legal software copyright certificate from our government.
Oh no, we are very afraid now! ;-)
But I guess that $1000 can buy you any
certificate you want in communist Vietnam, your home country...
Let us know when you get such certificate from the US government, then we will finally be able to sue you. But I'm afraid they don't issue such certificates to non-existent entities.

> I will post the link to download our software here. You can make
> your own draw right after installing our software and compare it
> assemblies, feature, classes, methods with Rebex's.
Good idea! We will publish a guide to this at http://cheated.by.safabyte.net/ later today.

So stay tuned, there is more to come!

— Rebex
We just noticed that "John Carban" changed his Posterous screen name to "xtra". I guess he realized that calling himself "John Carban" was not a smart idea after all. As you can see, he has not answered any of our four simple question, although he is very active in the comment section of our first post: http://post.ly/ETVk
— Rebex
I'm sure that you will find nothing that is convincing. We wrote them from scratch. About the company profile, it's a true company and we do not have to show you-Rebex anything, you do not have the right.
— xtra
Xtra, we are already 100% sure you stole our code this time as well and we can prove it. And unless you answer the four questions, your potential customers will run away from you. So let me repeat those for you:

1. Can you prove that your company (XtraComponents) exists? We tried searching http://apps.sos.ky.gov/business/obdb/%28S%28pij3yiyqrrdsqr455rxjzda4%29%29/default.aspx but found no trace of it. Please explain.
2. Can you prove that you are in fact a Microsoft Certified Partner, as you claim on your website?
3. The founders and owners of your company are nowhere to be found. Why? A linkedin.com profile would be nice. At least one that is older that a month.
4. You claim to have a lot of corporate customers already. Can you prove that any of the companies featured at your website actually uses your software?

Unless you actually address any of these questions, your further comments on this post are waste of our reader's time and will be removed. You also deleted lot of posts on ComponentForge forums whan people complained, haven't you? ;-)

— Rebex
Xtra, by the way, we don't understand how you can still sleep at night. I'm sure that falsely claiming to be a Microsoft certificed partner can get you into a big trouble, even in Vietnam...
— Rebex
It looks like Xtra has been working very hard for the last three weeks to completely change the public API of his copy of FTP and SFTP source code. He even re-worded the original comments this time. No wonder he was unable to masquarade the other components yet. Even though he still left the FTP internals completely intact, I guess that if he keeps working this hard for the next year or two, he might actually end up with a Rebex-free FTP component of his own! ;-)

But his comments here also helped us to realize that we don't have to prove anything to him either. After all, he already knows very well he stole his FTP/STP code from us. Instead, our job now is to prove this to his future customers. And the best way to prove it to them is definitely not publishing a guide for Xtra on how exactly to fix his "product" to remove any obvious similarities.

Luckily, convincing his future customers is quite easy. All we have to do is instruct them to ask the inconvenient questions listed above :-)

Anyway, in case you would still like to see a good old proof that Xtra stole a substantial part of his code from Rebex, you are welcome to ask at support@rebex.net!

— Rebex
Sorry Xtra, I removed your comment. Although you addressed he questions, you have not answered any of them at all.

But that would be still OK to leave your reply here. Unfortunately for you, you were unable to resist the temptation to fill the rest of your comment with your lies other nonsense. And frankly, we are already fed up with you. If you think that our software infringes anyone's copyright, just tell us about it for god's sake and we will remove any infringing code as soon as possible. Any legitimate company would do that. Only telling other people only makes you look like a small kid who is just about to lose his favorite toy.

But you were warned - unless you actually ANSWER the questions, we will delete your further posts.

Next time, please split your reply into two halfs. Put your "answers" into one half and put your lies into the other. We will then delete the half with the lies and keep the half with the "answers" :-)

— Rebex
You can check out Xtra's "answers" to our questions here: http://post.ly/FKW6
— Rebex
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