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Spread the Disease |
Did anyone else who owns a business get one of these? A $78 filing fee is BULLSHIT. It's not as if the feds don't take enough of our money already. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | ||
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I was under the impression there was no fee for the BOI filing. Are you sure the letter isn't from a 3rd party trying to make it look like an official government letter and offering to file it on your behalf for a fee? | |||
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| Spread the Disease |
It seems legit to me; even the QR code and provided web address link to the same form location, which seems to be the official one.  ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Never heard of that. I’d suspect it’s a scam letter. The form is only new companies formed in 2024 and later to ID the actual owners and doesn’t have a fee. The email address on that form posted isn’t a .gov address. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Told cops where to go for over 29 years… |
From the Fincen.gov/boi website (which is the LEGIT website): “ Alert: FinCEN has been notified of recent fraudulent attempts to solicit information from individuals and entities who may be subject to reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act. The fraudulent correspondence may be titled "Important Compliance Notice" and asks the recipient to click on a URL or to scan a QR code. Those e-mails or letters are fraudulent. FinCEN does not send unsolicited requests. Please do not respond to these fraudulent messages, or click on any links or scan any QR codes within them.” What you posted is not kosher, it is not a .gov web address. If you go to the root “deptofbusiness.us” web address it gives you official looking but BS info. The site redirects to tprepamerica.us web address, and shows a logo that says “Business Filing Division a Dept of Taxprep America” Definitely NOT a legit government website. Also from the real website, you cannot even file until January. What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???  | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Send the letter back with "FUCK.YOU." written over it. Q | |||
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That letter and URL looks fake. I hope the scammers didn't get any money from you. | |||
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BBB Scam Tracker says Phishing Scam. Scam Type Phishing Learn More Business name Phishing Scam https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/lookupscam/787229 ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives |
Scam Note the email address of "deptofbusiness.us" ***************************** "I don't own the night, I only operate a small franchise" - Author unknown | |||
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Member |
It's fake, look at the web address it's a ".us" not ".gov". All U.S. government web addresses are .GOV. ---------- “Nobody can ever take your integrity away from you. Only you can give up your integrity.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
Dot "us" is not gov. Dot gov is gov. Sometimes you'll see .us.gov. But the top level .us could be registered by any scammer, and in this case, was.  | |||
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Objectively Reasonable |
There is no government agency with that name. At all. Somewhere on there is a note in very small print that says "we aren't a government agency" but few people actually read it. It's 100% a scam, similar to the "Business Owner: Notice, you can be fined a trillion dollars if you don't have these posters" mailings. | |||
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| Spread the Disease |
Assholes. Good to know. At least I was skeptical; they put some effort into this one. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Wouldn't be a very good scam if it didn't have the appearance of legitimacy, would it?  One must be exceedingly careful these days. I'm a retired I.T. guy with many years experience and even I am sometimes nearly fooled by some of the stuff that arrives in my inbox. This ^^^^^ Yeah, "Department of Records Management" and "Department of Business" are kind of dead give-aways. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Spread the Disease |
Kicking myself for not seeing it so easily now. It probably didn't help that it came at the worst time- sick for 2 days with almost no sleep. These people should be put against a wall and shot. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
This is common with many state and federal registration requirements. There are companies that get the list of active businesses in the state, then send an official looking notice with a fee that they can "register" your business. Got them forever on my company, and at first you'd think it was an official government form but like with the .us address it's clearly not an official federal form. | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
Yeah, that's how I feel about it. Q | |||
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Political Cynic |
agreed you only need to do this once or twice, and scammers will get the idea it should be national policy to track down scammers and make their remaining lives excruciatingly painful again, do this once or twice and the scammers will go away | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
While I did not use your exact terminology, I have replied to a few of these scams, inviting them to sit on a cactus. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Exceptional Circumstances |
I have never received one of those. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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