| Colorado Corporate Controllers |
| Colorado Corporate Controllers Unit Fraudulent annual fee notice Denver, Colorado |
| 10th of Apr, 2011 by User732438 |
| Be sure to read the fine print!!! This letter looks official enough with a "corporations code" & threat of non compliance status. However, it is false. The fine print reads "This product has not been approved or endorsed by any Government Agency & this offer is not being made by an agency of the Government", etc. The last sentance says, "You are under no obligation to make any payments on account of this offer." My guess this is the scam artists legal mumbo jumbo to avoid lawsuits. They seem to target companies such as mine that do a lot of business in other states, assuming the home office doesn't keep track of its foreign coropration status & fees. I suggest keeping individual state files on hand, so if someone in your company doesn't read the fine print they can go to the state file to see these "fees" are fraudulent. I also suggest faxing, emailing or snail mailing this letter to the particular state. I did so for California & I received a letter from them thanking me & telling me that California is trying to set in place legislation that would make phony offers such as this illegal, therefore persons/scam company involved would be prosecuted. By sending them "proof" they had evidence of fraud to move forward. |
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| I received one of these letters for our corporation. I went to my business banker who initially set up my S-corp, he reviewed this document and confirmed this was a SCAM letter. Annual renewals are generally less than the offered SCAM letter. To reapply for your corporate status in your state, usually you will file a renewal corporate application. Thanks Chase Business Banking Division. |
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I got one of these letters too. I tried to look up a number to call to verify this letter after reading the bottom of it. So it is a scam? Great. Thanks for the share.
CBUnlimited |
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I too returned from a trip and found two notices for each of my entities in the mail, with due dates that were not consistent with my filing dates and already in the past. I went to search the Colorado Corporate Controllers office on the internet to find out where I could contact this organization to inquire as to the nature of the bill. I saw this blog on this topic, Thank You! I'm glad I did, just saved me a bunch of hard earned money. It's the "Pursuant to Section 24-21-104 (3) CRS" that threw me. Does not the USPS have some law regarding this type of mailing? Thanks for your words and for Google for putting it at the top of the search, otherwise I might have missed it!
Redstone Enterprises |
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