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Fake Business Compliance Letter Scam Reports & Reviews (451)

- Winchester, VA, USA • Oct 05, 2025

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!!!

- Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA • Oct 04, 2025

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.

- Key West, FL, USA • Sep 27, 2025

Form 4534. Annual records service. An offical looking form but with no phone number, email address to contact anyone.

- Capitol Heights, MD, USA • Sep 21, 2025

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

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.

- Capitol Heights, MD, USA • Sep 21, 2025

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.

- Apopka, FL, USA • Sep 20, 2025

Scammer presenting themselves as a government entity asking for money for my business reporting. See attached.

- Hartford, CT, USA • Sep 20, 2025

Send payment or face fine$500/day or 10000 or 2 yrs imprisonment

- Bethesda, MD, USA • Sep 20, 2025

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.

- Rockville, MD, USA • Sep 20, 2025

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.

• Sep 14, 2025

I received a letter in the mail from this Annual Records Service wanting 119.00 or they would start fining me $500.00 per day. When I looked up Form 5510 it turned out to be bogus - the IRS has no such form. When I looked up Annual Records Service, the results indicated this was a fraudulent to get more info and my bank account. My question is: They already had my business name and address. How did they get that? Did a government agency sell the list (I also started to receive solicitations from insurance and other companies) or was my computer hacked?

- Tucson, AZ, USA • Sep 13, 2025

Annual records service

1030 15TH ST NW #366

Washington DC 20005-1503

Good thing I was looking up forms on the IRS website when I encountered this form and how it was a scam. They almost got us for 119$ the form looks legit but some of the wording seemed off to me . With that said something told me to look it up . I'm glad I did.

- Linthicum Heights, MD, USA • Sep 10, 2025

Received form via USPS stating "In Accordance with the Business Laws of the State of Maryland" that we were to complete document with owners and % owned with payment of $147.50.

Address is to a PO Box that appears to be a UPS Store ?

- Winchester, KY, USA • Sep 08, 2025

We registered 4 new businesses and received a letter for each one claiming we need to buy an OSHA safety manual @ $295 each. I didn't realize it was a scam until a few weeks later I received the same letter for my business that I have had since 1997.

- Knoxville, TN, USA • Sep 08, 2025

Letter received by postal service with very short turn-around time (Due date September 16, received on September 8) requesting highly sensitive business information and payment for $119 by check or money order.

No email, no phone number provided on the form, only on the return envelope. Form looks like a tax document from the IRS and alludes to 2 years imprisonment or $10,000 penalty for non compliance.

Scam is targeted at a nationwide business, not an individual.

- Brooklyn, NY, USA • Sep 08, 2025

received a mail solicitation from a company called C.P.S. titled “2026 – Safety Manual Order Form (New York Businesses)”. The document strongly implies that purchasing their $295 safety manual is required to comply with OSHA regulations.

The letter includes threats of significant OSHA fines and civil penalties and provides a “Please Respond By” deadline, which makes it appear to be an official government notice. However, in small print it admits that C.P.S. is not a government agency and is not providing legal advice.

I believe this mailing is misleading and deceptive, especially for small businesses that may feel pressured to send payment in fear of noncompliance. I am reporting this so other businesses are not misled into unnecessary payments.

- Hattiesburg, MS, USA • Sep 07, 2025

Received letter to complete a one page annual statement for corporate meeting minutes in accordance with business state laws for $147.50. Problem is, this is the third company I have been targeted from. I did pay the fees before (2x's). Called the State Dept to inquire about my return of information, and I was told I didn't have to pay those fees because it was a scam; while the representative is smirk laughing on the phone. Never offering any suggestion to how to retrieve those funds. This should not keep happening. Why is this happening? Who is responsible for this action and the correction? This address serves The UPS STORE, offering public to "Get copies & printed presentations quickly..." THIS SHOULD BE STOPPED!!!

- Leesburg, VA, USA • Sep 06, 2025

The mail indicates that the state registration fee must be paid for my parents LLC. Even though it is already paid. The mail attempts to get someone to mail money to a PO Box in glen Allen VA. It requests $135 which is higher than the required state registration fee. It highlights sections of the VA legal code and has several “official” stamps to make the letter appear important and real.

- Mountville, PA, USA • Sep 06, 2025

“State and Federal Labor Law Postings”

- Mechanicsville, MD, USA • Sep 06, 2025

Form from “annual records service” 5510 “mandatory beneficial ownership reporting” asking for check or money order before a certain date and name and address of beneficial owners

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