California Business Compliance Agency California Corporate Compliance Fraudulent solicitation of service disguised as California state government Pas

18th of Oct, 2011 by User658290

I received a statement from a company calling itself "California Business Compliance Agency - Business Records Division". It's an official sounding name, located in Sacramento. It's titled "2011 Statement of Information (Annual Corporate Report)". It's laid out very similar to government forms, including recording-style boxes in the upper-right hand corner.
It includes -
REPLY BY: PAST DUE
FILING FEE: $129.00
FILE NUMBER: 03210387
FILING DUE DATE 03/31/11 On the front and back sides, it includes references to California Code. It even has a seal that tries hard to look like the California State Seal, but the picture is horizontally flipped, the artwork slightly shrunken and more simplistically drawn, and, around the seal, instead of saying "THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA", it says "THE BUSINESS COMPLIANCE AGENCY CALIFORNIA". This is a scam. I am not $129 past due with them, whoever they are. And I do not need them to file my business records with the State of California. In the lower left-hand corner, it gives a form ID: CA-300 Approved 03/31/11 There is no form used and approved by the California State government identified as CA-300. They do tell the truth, but only in fine print at the bottom, labeled with more California Code references to make it non-obvious:
"CALIFORNIA B&P CODE: 17533.6 THIS PRODUCT OR SERVICE HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED OR ENDORSED BY ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND THIS OFFER IS NOT BEING MADE BY AN AGENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT. 39&30001 (D) THIS IS A SALUTATION FOR THE ORDER OF SERVICE AND NOT A BILL INVOICE OR STATEMENT DUE. NO OBLIGATION TO MAKE ANY PAYMENTS; UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THIS OFFER." This whole statement is set up to look like it's from a State government agency and to distract from the fact that it is not.

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