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• Nov 11, 2025
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Document noted several federal statutes regarding workplace safety and the severity of violating OSHA regulations and requested $295.00 be mailed to "C.P.S." The document was made to look like an official government document, as is clearly trying to scam new business owners into paying for things they don't need.

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- Minneapolis, MN, USA • Nov 11, 2025
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Document noted several federal statutes regarding workplace safety and the severity of violating OSHA regulations and requested $295.00 be mailed to "C.P.S." The document was made to look like an official government document, as is clearly trying to scam new business owners into paying for things they don't need.

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- Meriden, CT, USA • Nov 11, 2025
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Two letters received by mail asking to pay $149.25 for each entity. notice date is 11/6/25 have to pay by 11/20/25. Also asked for owners titles, names, contact information. The toll number provided has been already registered for multiple other scams. No email or website on the letter; business laws cited. The address to send the checks to is a UPS store. All the signs of scam.

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- Silver Spring, MD, USA • Nov 09, 2025
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Letter requesting a new LLC to pay for posting labor law poster

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- Arlington, VA, USA • Nov 08, 2025
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I got a letter in the mail saying that I needed to pay $135 for an annual registration of my LLC. It said it was a final notice and was due in two weeks.

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- Grand Rapids, MI, USA • Nov 08, 2025
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Form 5510 Mandatory Beneficial Ownership Reporting. Make check or money order payable to Annual Records Service.

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- Fort Collins, CO, USA • Nov 08, 2025
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asking for business documents

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- Baltimore, MD, USA • Oct 25, 2025
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I received the attached document in the mail shortly after setting up my LLC. It appeared to be an official document asking for payment for corporate meeting minutes. It also so pulled some excerpts of the law to add some legitimacy. It asks for a list of the owners and their title along with contact information and signature. It also asks for payment in the amount of 148.67 for a corporate annual minute fee.

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- Sykesville, MD, USA • Oct 25, 2025
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Certifcate of status, business posting, & corporate meeting processing and warnings.

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- Spotsylvania, VA, USA • Oct 13, 2025
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scammer wanted $100 to file annual report with the state of Virginia

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- Winchester, VA, USA • Oct 05, 2025
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They send business emails that look Government legit.they warn you that not doing it could cause for you business to be closed. They want $135 to do something that’s as simple as logging into your account to pay your fee go the year. And they ask for all your information to do it. If nothing else though, ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT!!!

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- Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA • Oct 04, 2025
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On October 4, 2025 we received a plain envelope in the u.S postal mail with a clear window and no return address. The inner return envelope was pre addressed to: annual records service 1030 15th street Northwest number 366 Washington DC2005 - 1503. Enclosed in the envelope was form 4434 a mandatory beneficial ownership reporting form with a respond by date of October 14, 2025. The supposed fee trying to be collected is one hundred nineteen dollars and the reporting entity was a privately owned business or current occupant. There were several red flags when we opened and reviewed this piece of mail.\n As they were trying to make us believe that they were going to file on our behalf and included scary sounding information about penalties, fines and imprisonment.

We have already taken care of this for our business as we were supposed to.And that was another red flag , because this has already been done.

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- Key West, FL, USA • Sep 27, 2025
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Form 4534. Annual records service. An offical looking form but with no phone number, email address to contact anyone.

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- Capitol Heights, MD, USA • Sep 21, 2025
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I received an official-looking letter regarding my newly-registered LLC. This letter described the need for me to attain a Certificate of Good Standing and asks for a check or money order of $87.25. There is very small print near the lower middle center of the letter that states "This is not a government agency."

This certificate can be requested directly from my registered state for less than $10, and is only required for certain loan or license applications I am not seeking at this time.

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- Capitol Heights, MD, USA • Sep 21, 2025
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I received an official-looking letter in the mail, which detailed federal law requirements to post a labor law poster in the workplace. I work from home and have no employees. The letter asks for a check or money order of $92.58, when the required posters can be printed for free or purchased online for less than $15.

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- Capitol Heights, MD, USA • Sep 21, 2025
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I received a letter describing Maryland Business Law requirements to submit corporate meeting minutes, but there are no clear services offered after this description. The letter then asks for a check or money order of $148.67 and details about owners including names, percentages, titles, and contact information.

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- Apopka, FL, USA • Sep 20, 2025
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Scammer presenting themselves as a government entity asking for money for my business reporting. See attached.

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- Hartford, CT, USA • Sep 20, 2025
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Send payment or face fine$500/day or 10000 or 2 yrs imprisonment

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- Bethesda, MD, USA • Sep 20, 2025
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Received a letter after registering my LLC in Maryland. Instructed me to send a check for $87.25 to obtain my "elective Maryland Certificate of Good Standing. It states on the letter that this is not a government agency.

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- Rockville, MD, USA • Sep 20, 2025
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After creating an solo LLC in a different state, received postal mail from "business" in DC with official sounding name directing me to pay for a certain items. One was a certificate of good standing, and the other being labor posters. The labor poster letter includes the sentence, "Your business is required by Federal Law to post a current compliant labor law poster in the workplace." This is a definitive statement as though they have analyzed my specific business to make that determination. That seems to be a misstatement, if not a mistruth. I have no employees as I am the sole owner via an LLC. The other issues is that these posters can be ordered at no cost to employers from DOL. This is one of those scams where they try to look official, and have you pay for things you can get (if even needed which for me it is not) for free.

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