Corporation Compliance Recorder scam

Thank you so much for your comments about the Corporation Compliance Recorder. I was so naive in spite of my years of public accounting as to start to enter the payment for this scam into my Quickbooks check writing batch. Then my training finally took hold. I was so angry that they would probably be able to pick off all the non-profit community with this scam when I realized it was not something we had to do. I will be filing a complaint with the Department of Justice.

Thank you for the great information. I had remembered hearing about this on the radio, and just this week our Homeowners Association received this letter. I googled Oregon Corporate Compliance Recorder and you site came up! I will be registering complaints and THANK YOU!

Thank you for your posting regarding this scam. We were ready to mail the requested information and $95 when we started reading the fine print and then went to google and typed in Corporation Compliance Recorder.

I think these people should be locked up. The government isn’t quick enough to take action, it’s a good thing we have your website as a service. Thanks for your help.

Hello Sir,
I received a Letter from Corporation Compliance Recorder from L.A. P.O.Box 66186
Los Angeles, CA 90066.
They were asking for $ 175.- and thru my hectical Work i just mailed the Check and in the same day I called my CPA and asked about and he immediately let me stop the Check Payment. So long story short, I received a notice from the Corporation Compliance Recorder, tha I have to make the payment with in 10 Business days or they will begin appropriate legal action.
My CPA told me that they are not a govermental Official and its more likely a scam.
If this is the case, then our Goverment should stop this nonsens soon.
In other countries companies cant even make the same looking Letterhead and other documents that looks like goverment paper.
I dont know what to do with those Folks.
Hopefully you can help me out here.
Thanks again
Sincerely
Harun Sevimli
CEO
ATCS Inc.
http://www.amerturk.com

I run a California corporation and received a very similar letter this month, but rather than Corporate Compliance Recorder, it is from MINUTES AND COMPLIANCE AFFAIRS. Keep an eye out for this one too – it’s the same sort of scam. They provide a very government-looking letter-invoice, ask for $125 and request your officer, director, shareholder information. They even splurged for an official-looking seal on this invoice. The address is as follows:
Minutes and compliance affairs
business processing division
P.O. Box 9878
North Hollywood, CA 91609

I JUST GOT A REQUEST TO FILL OUT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLAINCE FORM AND REQUEST FOR $125 CHECK TO BE MADE OUT TO “CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE” ( NOT TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA), BUSINESS DIVISION, 3053 FREEPORT BLVD.#310, SACRAMENTO, CA 95818.
I THINK IT IS A SCAM AND HOPE TO CHECK IT OUT WITH THE STATE TOMORROW
RON SHLENSKY, MD, JD

I paid $125 to:
Minutes and compliance affairs
business processing division
P.O. Box 9878
North Hollywood, CA 91609
I just figured out this is a scam. I am so angry with it. We have to do something to stop this? Does anyone have any idea?
Thanks.

Thanks to this website, I was able to learn about the scam of the Corporation Compliance Recorder. I was fooled into paying $125 in March of 2005 for the annual recording, then got another one in late September and had realized, why would I have to pay for an annual fee twice in the same year. The address on this is CORPORATION COMPLIANCE RECORDER
ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNTING DIVISION
P.O. Box 1976
LOS ANGELES, CA 90294
I will definitely be filing a complaint.

I got a similar notice from Sacramento address. Thank you for posting this information.

I just received a similar letter asking for $125 from the “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” at P.O. Box 360709 Los Angeles 90036. I reported it to the Franchise Tax Board and the BBB but no one took particular interest.

We too just recieved one of these forms and to my dismay our internal payables had the form filled out and ready to go asking for a check to be signed. I agree, our goverment should put a stop to this unfair business tactic!

I just received a similar letter from the same company with a mailing address in Sacramento, CA. I am a california small business corp. Thanks for confirming what I thought was a scam! You really have to read the small print to realize they are a scam. I will also report them to the agencies in california you suggest.
Thanks, again.

I got one of these scary letter too. It sited all these sections of ordinances for corporation compliance and is so easy to get fool by it. Especially when you are so busy with everything else from your business.

Just received the corporate compliance letter post marked December 22, The only clue is on the front of the envelope, just above the address window. It reads “THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT”. This is the only clue to the scam. I have contacted “The Company Corporation” who do have a compliance division in Sacramento to see if there is any conection. This has to be some sort of Postal Violation. The intent is to defraud.

California Corporate Compliance Business at 3053 Freeport Blvd also attempted to scam me, fraudulently posing as a government agency and attempting to trick me into paying a “$125 annual fee”. I do not regard their small-print “This product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency…” as adequate defense against mail fraud charges. I hope that they are prosecuted.
I will retain their mailing. I can be reached at kjd@duda.org.

Thank you for posting this warning. I just received a letter from the “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” (corporation # 2543080) asking for $125. I was slightly suspicious about the lack of specific wording on the form and lack of any instructions. I’m not sure if it is a scam, but it sure seems like it.

I called mail fraud to see what can be done about these crooks. Thye had me fax them at 916-927-0128 the information and a statement to try to nail these idiots. If you have any more info call Pam at 916-263-7240.

I JUST GOT A REQUEST TO FILL OUT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE FORM AND REQUEST FOR $125 CHECK TO BE MADE OUT TO “CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE” (NOT TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA), BUSINESS DIVISION, 3053 FREEPORT BLVD.#310, SACRAMENTO, CA 95818.
I THINK IT IS A SCAM.
CAN WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS? I AM CALLING THE CA DEPARTMENT OF CORPORATION — I AM STILL ON HOLD.

I also received the notice today asking for $125 with the PO Box 66186 Los Angeles address. My corporation was just formed in October so we haven’t had our annual meeting yet, so I was suspicious. I think I’ll send their envelope back to them with a nasty note in it!

I too received the letter and I am not a non-profit. I also find it amusing that they are charging a late fee if you don’t return it within the week you received it…. I am so glad I found this site to confirm my suspicions of this being fraud.

Thanks to this information I am not in compliance with our fine friends at the office in Los Angeles. P.O. Box 66186
DC

They have hit again, I recieved the same letter form Corporation Compliance Recorder and typed out my minutes stamped with corporate seal and was ready to mail it off thinking it was from a government office. I stopped when I couldn’t find any telephone numbers or anything that stated it was a government organization such as the Department of Corporations. I am disgusted that as a small business owner I am subject to these types of scams. These kind of businesses need to be dismantled and there officers jailed for theft by deception. I am sure the amount of monies they have recieved from unsuspecting businesses has reached a level warranting a felony grand theft.

Just got one for my for-profit CA corp, except it demands $125 and I cannot find any disclaimer indicating that this is from a private company rather than from government. The format of the document mimics the State of CA Secty of State document too.

I received a notice from California Corporate Compliance requesting $125 Annual Fee and was suspicious, so I googled them and found this great site. I called the number above and here’s how to report them for Postal Fraud:
Call Pam 916-263-7240
Mail copies of letter and envelope to
Postal Inspectors Office, Attn Pam
PO 13130
Sacramento 95813
EVERYBODY PLEASE REPORT THESE CREEPS!

Well, they’re still at it. I recieved my letter from this scam today. Besides being plain robbers they obtain valuable data from those who are caught off guard which could be used for identity theft. I will rearch who to report this to and post it when I find out. Good Luck to you all John.

I contacted Pam at the US Postal Inspectors office, and she sent me to a website to file a complaint against them. The address is: http://www.usps.com\postalinspectors
Click on FRAUD and register your complaint. I received a letter from them yesterday. When I researched it on the internet, this site was the first one to pop-up. Thank goodness because I thought it was official and would have been duped if it were not for my wife’s discernment. Thank you for saving me time and money.

Can anybody tell me how I go about getting a refund for the fees I paid? I fell for this scam.
Thanks

I received a letter from Corporation Compliance Recorder PO Box 66186, LA 90066 sometime in Feb 2006. The letter says “All domestic stock corporations shall pay a total of $125, in a single check or money order made payable to Corporation Compliance Recroder and mail to Main office: PO Box 66186, LA. Make check payable to “Corporation Compliance Recroder Business Programs Division.” I searched the web and found all your comments. Thank you for all your comments. I would really like to see this “Comliance recorder” get caught by our government, hopefully, soon.

I have a CA Corporation. I recieved a letter from the Corporation Compliance Recorder asking for 125.00 or if late 175.00. The address to send the money to was p.o. box 66186 in Los Angeles. Thanks to this website I saved at least 125.00 on this scam. Thanks, John Dorr

Hello, my company also received this same letter. I just started my company a couple of months ago. So I filled it out and also included in my check the late fee of $50.00 which totaled $175.00. I filled it all out and had a question about my minutes so I called 411 and asked for corporate compliance recorders office in L.A. California and there was no such listing. So I decided to look them up online and found this interesting scam. Glad I didn’t mail my check today!

Thank you for this info. I received very similar latter from california corporate compliance at 3053 freeport blvd #310, sacramento, ca 95818 a while ago and was wondering if its a scam. Now i can finally throw this letter away! Thanks to u !!

We recieved this in our office and were all set to send it in when my CFO questioned this. I did a web search and found your site. Thanks for posting this it saved us $125. I am also reporting this to the California Dept. of Justice.

Received my second in two years orom the California Corporate Compliance. I googled the name and got your page. Many thanks
Frank Lovero Jr.

I fell for this scam and paid my $125 fee.
I contacted the 1-866-833-4085 phone number a day after I sent my check and spoke to an agent who said they would send my check back un cashed. Two weeks later I notice on my bank statement they cashed my check.
To make a long story short, I contacted the above phone number over and over for the next 3 weeks and spoke too many different people and found out that the company taking the calls is a third party – (Answer Connect – http://www.answerconnect.com & ph# – 800-525-1315). These agents lead me to beleived they were actual Annual Minutes and Compliance Service representatives. They only communicate with the company via eletronic text messages. I contacted the Answer Connect company directly and spoke to them at length about their agents not properly representing themselves – shortly after this, an agent from the nnual Minutes and Compliance Service contacted me (310-309-0761 – Eva) about my refund. They sent it to me a cashiers check for a full refund – this took about 4 weeks from when I stated my orig complaint.

Our Homeowners Association received a similar letter from Corporate Compliance Center, 2740 Fulton Avenue., Suite 203, Sacramento, CA 95821 (916) 480-9006. Same scam under a new name. They were asking $150.00 for the same service. I will also be reporting them.

Just got my very own personal copy of the same letter, from L.A., CA 90066. So, I’m a proud member of the club. Can you say, class action? Jail time? I’m going to take this as far as I can.

I started to fill out the form, and balked at the $125 fee, as I know the State of CA Secretary of State filing is $25. They are counting on the short deadline, Notice date 3/24/06 and deadline of April 7, 2006 to rush people into paying. I tried to report to the Secretary of State, and could not break through their automated response system!
margo

I also received similar letter from “Corporation Compliance Recorder” to pay $125.00. I called Secretary of State (SOS), as per them it is not scam. As per SOS, it is totally upto corporation to pay them or not. Where as SoS doesn’t require such kind of filings.
I am glad I googled and find this site. Atleast I save $125.00 for now. Let us see what next pops up.
-Kamal Singh

I also received “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” from Corporate Compliance Recorder P.O. Box 66186, Los Angeles, CA 90066 asking for $125. As I noticed there was not even a phone number to call, I google-searched this and found this website. Thank you for your information – I had already filled out the form and was ready to cut a check.

We have received many letters regarding “Corporate Compliance,” however the one received today about corporate minutes was the most official-looking one to date. Had to really look closely at the small print to see the disclaimer. This notice even had our correct State Corporate Number, which I understand is Public Record, however, it does make it look all that much more official.
Thank you so much for your website. Seems while you are doing a good public service, our government representatives are looking the other way. Keep up the good work!

Got the California corporate minutes form scam in the mail. Very convincing. It was only when I read the fine print at the bottom about it being a “solicitation for the order of goods and services” did I realize that something wasn’t right.
They plaster state statutes all of the the page to make you afraid that you will be in violation of the law if you don’t send it in. Plus, the dealine is very short. I filed a mail fraud complaint and hope that they shut down this company. There is clear intent to defraud.

Thanks for this website. My accounting office filled out the paperwork and gave me a check to sign at my request. I didn’t read the whole thing. We’ve been in business 30 years and I never remembered paying for it before. Thought I’d look it up and your website proved my suspicions. Thanks again.

Got the letter yesterday (Compliance Annual Minutes Board). This morning looked at it more closely and suspected scam. Checked the web and sure enough, it is. Thanks everyone for contributing to nail the bastards.

Our church got the same letter from Corporation Compliance Recorder, P.O. Box 66186, Los Angeles, CA 90066. They were asking for $125. Not knowing what it was for, I tried to call them, but I didn’t see a phone number. Then I decided to google the company and found this website. Thanks God for all of you. How could somebody do that to a church?

Thanks for the info. I just received a letter from California Coporate Compliance with the Sacramento address. Luckily I found this website before sending out the check.

Thank you so much for your website and all the comments.
I also received “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” from BUSINESS DIVISION-California Corporate Compliance, 3053 FREEPORT BLVD.#310, SACRAMENTO, CA 95818,
asking for $125. I tried to locate their address through white page. I couldn’t find anything. It’s very lucky that I found this website before sending out the check.

here is a link to mail fraud in california. I received one of these letters the other day as well but looked it up and found you guys!
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/

Our non profit organization received one of these letters also from Sacramento. Our Treasurer passed it on to me, asking if it was official. As a veteran of looking up “urban legends” on the internet, I checked here first. Thank you all for doing the same.

Received a letter from State Corporate Compliance. Went to Google and found all of this interesting information. I downloaded a page giving notice of this being a fraud so I copied it, and returned the scam notice to them which I signed Gotcha. My return address-Tink Imadumbass, Inc. La.Ca. zip 00u812?????
I was going to waste my accountants time, and my money asking about this bill. Thanks.

I also received the same letter from Corporate Compliance Recorder. I spent a couple of useless hours trying to figure out if this is legit and if I should mail the check. Thank you for your website, I save $125. This scam artist should be jailed.

We recieved the same letter last week and I was surprised that in the past we haven’t had any such thing. The smart thing I did was to call my attorney to find out what we need to do. He immediately told me to trash it and has nothing to do with our corporation.
I mewnt must take charge and blast these organizations that make money in disguise. Once I trace them I will nail them and make sure these rogues pay for their deeds.

I got one of these; it looked odd to me; any time that someone/some agency wants money I am suspicious; I am particularly suspicious if I haven’t heard of them before or paid them before. So I typed it in on Google and came to this site. Thanks to you and the internet we normal people are now able to check out these fishy looking mailings. How come these people haven’t been stopped? What government agency regulates this kind of stuff? It has obviously been reported on many occasions

I’m glad I Googled ‘Corporation Compliance Recorder’ before “complying” with $125!! To file a complaint with the BBB go here:
http://www.labbb.org/BBBWeb/Forms/Complaint/ComplaintDetail.aspx?CompanyID=13211261

I was ready to send the form with 150.00, and didn’t send it because I never had to do this before. Hint: Government forms for a corporation are always the same every year, be aware if all of a sudden you get one that you have never seen before. And looking through my payment history I noticed that all government fees are paid to State or Federal agencies. The reason why why I was not sure is because these scammers call themselves “State Corporate Compliance”, 916 j St, Sacramento CA 95814.

I too got one of these “Corporate Compliance” forms with the 916 J Street address. I happily wrote very nasty, negative things on the form and sent it back WITHOUT a check. They are accumulating very bad karma and it will all come back to them.

Corporate Compliance Center, 2740 Fulton Ave. Ste 203, Sacramento 150.00
I’m so glad I checked the web first,before I called CPA and Attorney.
What a scam, thank you all for your postings. I will make a report as well.

I would like everyone to know that after reading the comments and being scammed by CCC as well, I filed a claim with the postal inspector. I did receive a confirmation from the USPS that my claim had been received and they would investigate this. I also called and left several messages for “Eva” 310-309-0761, who was referenced in one of the messages above. She did finally call me back and I just received a cashier’s check in the mail refunding the full amount. She said she would follow up on the whereabouts of my minutes but I told her send me a refund as I had done the minutes myself. “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”. IN ADDITION, today I received yet a new solicitation from CCC with a totally different “look”. It does not look “governmental” as it did before. I suggest you pursue this matter with Eva should you desire a refund. Good luck!!

I was scammed by Corporate Compliance Center, 2740 Fulton Ave. Ste 203, Sacramento 125.00 and Compliance Division at 9175 Kiefer Blvd. #312, Sacramento, CA95826 last year. My bookkeeper automatically payed last week due to the last year’s records. I cancelled my check in time.
Another one is even harder to catch:
ANNUAL MINUTES DISCOSURE STATEMENT BY “Compliance Division at 9175 Kiefer Blvd. #312, Sacramento, CA95826″. This company did not have any disclaimer saying that it was not affiliated with the state agency”. It looked alarmingly official.
It asked for $175. Beware.

Thank you for this blog!! I got this notice for a client and could not figure out why we would suddenlyhave to pay $175 and turn in all these minutes! I “googled” the “Corporation Compliance Recorder” and this blog was at the top. Thank you!

New year, new name, new scam – California Filings Division (Minutes Division), 9175 Kiefer Blvd. #312, Sacramento, CA 95826. We are neither a non-profit nor a small company so they target everyone. I guess they hope with a large company that it will get lost in all the other filings. All the way at the bottom of the official-looking form (very similar to the actual form used by the state in 2004, complete with gray bars), in the tiniest print is their disclaimer. And inaccurate and incomplete with respect to their statutory references!

Thank you for relieving my anxiety. After reading your articles on the internet, I thank God that this is another scam.
I got cheated by the Business Compliance Division for unauthorized electronic withdrawal of $500 every 3 months eversince this company got hold of my checking account number. I had to close my checking account.

Look guys, I filed a complaint about five years ago, four years ago, etc. Nobody’s (postal service, police department, sacramento government, bbb) going to do anything about them because nobody cares. These people will continue to defraud you because the organizations aren’t doing their jobs and they have no incentive to do so. Literally, they couldn’t care less. Sure, they’ll take down your information and they may even as you to fax in your latest scam letter from California Corporate Compliance but they will then only staple it together and put it into a file and then go back to shuffling the other papers on their desk until 4:59pm rolls around. I have received one of these fraudulent invoices once per year from them during the entire existence of my corporation. Although I have never sent them money, I have still fought the good paperwork battle to try to put an end to them. I think a different approach might be more effective…
I suggest you visit one of their fine offices with a baseball bat, ballpeen hammer or attitude adjustment object of your choice and convince them that you’re unhappy with their business model.

I am a printer in Las Vegas, NV. CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLAINCE has approched me to print 40,000 envelopes and fliers concerning this subject matter. We have decided not to print this but this is going to be a serious problem here in Nevada.

I am a graphic designer and when I saw this incredibly poor designed logo of the Complaince Annual Minutes Board I was immediately suspicious. I looked it up on the internet and found this site. I was not surprised to see so many complaints. We will never stop these people and shame on the printers that print this crap. I feel sorry for the trees that lost their lives for this garbage.

We received this Corporation Compliance Recorder scam letter too. The address to send $150 payment is P.O. Box 360709, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Their scam telephone # is (866)235-7341
I have reported them to the California BBB.
Hopefully they will shut them down and give them a hefty fine as well as jail time for MAIL FRAUD. The victims are small business owners such as me.

I just got the same letter in the mail! I was going to send it in, but wanted to scan it first and then wanted to see if I can file for it online. Thank god for you people!
Anyway, some of you wanted to see what can be done about these awful scammers. Here’s what I found: http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2005/082505renewal_pop.pdf
Maybe someone can do the same in CA?

We just received one from Corporation Compliance Recorder in Los Angeles CA. P.O. Box 66186. We have received this kind of letter before but this one looked much more official than the others.

I have received a letter myself from the COMPLIANCE ANUAL MINUTES BOARD/ Business Processing Division at Po Box 360709, Los Angeles, CA, 90036 for $150.00. I have called the number I have found on this website and somebody actually answers this phone.(866)235-7341.When I asked if they are a governmental agency, the woman said: “let me see, We are not”.Let’s all try to do something about this and nail this people. After all work hard for our money.

You’re a lifesaver! I had the information filled out and the check cut. I was searching the Internet for their phone number when I came upon this site. Thanks so much!!

I work for a very large organization (over 50,000 employees), and we also received this form. It was forwarded to me by another employee asking me to complete and file it. I knew immediately that it wasn’t a form from the Secretary of State of California, but thought I would research it anyhow. After reading the information posted on this site, I have decided to scan and email the form to my counterparts within my organization in order to warn them. I also plan on contacting the California Secretary of State.

Thank You for this website. I too got a lettler from CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE at 3053 FREEPORT BLVD 310, SACRAMENTO, CA 95818 asking for the munites and $125.00 for filing. I remember hearing about the scam and I check on the internet and this website confirmed the scam. I will check them out further. Thank You.

We received a letter ourselves and we are invoicing them for the wasted time they caused. We are charging them our hourly rate for one hour. After a 90 day period of time we are going to sue them in small claims court and see what they do then.
Philip

I got a similar scam mail today demanding a payment of $150 paid to COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD, Business Processing Division. P.O. Box 9011 Temecula, CA 92589.
I got suspecious and searched online and found your website. Thank you very much.
How can we stop these crooks?
smayfield

I received an ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE STATEMENT requesting $125. As I’m in the UK, I assumed it was some US thing I hadn’t heard of. I was looking for who to write the cheque to, when I saw the tiny and deliberately confusing note at the bottom stating this is not an invoice etc…. I googled it and found your information.
I have now torn the notice up – Thanks.

Hello everybody, We should forward these letters to the Secretary of State. The government should have a way to ban those bank accounts who deposits these checks under these payable names, don’t they?
I received one from “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” asking for $150. Address is P.O.Box 9011, Teecula, CA 92589.
We should report all of them!!

Compliance Annual Minutes Board
Directors and Shareholders
Instruction Form
(Domestic Stock Corporations) Annual Fee $150
The seal shows a picture of an eagle with its wings spread–the seal sure makes this look fradulent.
The group is not operating out of P.O. Box 9011, Temecula, CA 92589
The form came with a letter citing Califonria Corporations Code §§ 9510(A), 600 and 1500.
Of course, don’t pay.

Just sat down with my business partner to discuss whether we should issue a check to these fools. We understood that corporations must file a “Statement of Information” annually, but didn’t understand why “annual minutes” would cost us $150 to file it!
Googled “Corporate Compliance” and this website came up. I read through most of the replies, and no one has mentioned submitting this to the FBI? Wouldn’t this fall under their jurisdiction, since these fraudulent mailers are sent nationwide?
Sorry to hear some of you fell victim to this scam. It’s almost as bad as the Nigerian email scam that’s circulated.

I also received a letter from the “Compliance Annual Minutes Board”, and almost paid. Does anyone know the proper place to report this?
Thanks

I received a request for $175 on a form that looked almost identical to the required secretary of state form in california from Corporates Filings Division. I turned the company into the Better Business Bureau, but am still waiting for the complaint to post. I received a request today for $$120 from Corporate Compliance Center. It looks like this is a scam that is making lots of companies big money.

I, too, filled out the Annual Meeting Minutes Disclosure Statment from a company going by California Corporate Compliance and then had second thoughts when I read on the envelope “This is not a government document.” But who reads the envelope all that closely??? So I googled and found this site. I checked on the zip code it was sent from and it’s a Las Vegas, NV zip: 89147. They also have a phone number in the document which I have yet to call: 866-833-4085. They list their address as 3053 Freeport Blvd. #310, Sacramento 95818. And thanks for all of your posts!

I spoke with someone from Secretary of State and she basically said they’ve been receiving the same kind of complaints for years and there isn’t anything they can do. What these companies are doing isn’t illegal, they are soliciting a service that our clients choose to decline or accept. She said all we can do is inform our clients of this type of solicitation. I asked if there was a place we can mail these documents and she said no, they receive tons of the same type of documents everyday from companies and all they do is shred them.

received letter from CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE to pay $125, letter did NOT state anywhere they’re not a state agency, their envelope, letter head, logo, packaging, documents were ALL designed to defraud people into believing this are state fees which HAVE to be paid within 10 days. their address is CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE, BUSINESS DIVISION, 3053 FREEPORT BLVD. #310, SACRAMENTO, CA 95818 and their phone is (866) 833-4085.
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it’s pathetic that a state is so helpless that cannot stop criminals even when evidence is handed to them and thousands complain, they know who they are and where they are, and yet all they do is shred the evidence??!!

Just received another letter from these guys, only they have changed their name to Corporate Business Bureau! Same scam! They left an e-mail address of Support@corporatebusinessbureau.com. The address they used is 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110-727 Los Angeles, CA 90045
Same official looking document with the disclaimer at the bottom in not so fine print.

got another one from CALIFORNIA CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, COMPLIANCE DIVISION, 2443 FAIR OAKS BLVD. #539, SACRAMENTO CA 95825, package looked liked gov. letter, with a seal resembling california state seal, with a bear, state map, and a star. phone number (866) 217-4167. I called them and told them I sent their check to the other guys I mentioned above 😛
Note their phone number goes to some place in Texas, which is dead giveaway, especially since it’s a STATE gov. office supposedly, and I called them around 4pm and the girl had no idea what time it was in Calif. kept saying this is the “after-hours” call center, I’ll have to call between 9am-5pm, ROFLMAO.

Thanks for the posting about the CCC scam. I’ve had a letter from the Califorina Corporate Compliance burried on my desk for several weeks, because I didn’t want to pay, but I also didn’t want to throw away something I needed. Thanks to you, I was able to confidently throw it away. The address on my return envelope was 3053 Freeport Blvd. #310, Sacramento, CA 95818. Thanks.

Thanks for posting this.
I have also received this solicitation. I had to read their form carefully to find the disclaimer that they are not a government office. They wanted $125.
I wonder how many people pay this without question.

We have just received the correspondence from California Corporate Compliance. Our CFO was suspicious and asked me to check it out. They were asking for $125.00. The return address posted is : 3053 Freeport Blvd, #310, Sacramento, CA 95818. I googled California Corporate Compliance and found this site. Thanks for posting this.

We also received the letter from the Corporation Compliance recorder and almost sent the $125.00 fee. I am so glad we looked up california corporate compliance and found out this was a SCAM!!! These people need to be reported and stopped. I wrote across the letter in red, we know about your scam. It was worth the 39 cents.

Wow! I got one of these too sking for $125 and Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement (San Fransisco, CA). I incorporated 4 months ago and am a single member corp. Did not make sense, so I ent online to get their phone number to call and ask for explanation and the very first link was to this blog. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Thanks for posting this. I am a small business owner and when I read my letter my first thought was, “What for?” When this thought hits you, call the people sending you the letter to find out more.
When I could not find a phone number anywhere on the mailing, I did a search for the address and found this site. Thanks for confirming my thinking here. I will be contacting my local mail fraud unit tomorrow!

Received our official notice today!! They are now charging $150 and their new address is 2443 Fair Oaks Boulevard #539, Sacramento, CA 95825. Keep ’em on the run!!

I’ve written an Associated Content article about these crooks, which you can find at:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/69144/annual_minutes_disclosure_statement.html
There is an “Email” button above the title – please feel free to send this article to anyone you know who owns a business and might be scammed at the hands of these crooks!!

Received notice today. We are a good sized insurance and investment company in Idaho. I was writing out my check request because we see so many of these notices and when I googled the form I found your blogs. Thank you! I filed a complaint with BBB.

I also received a letter from “COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD” asking for $150 and due in 10 days. It is sent from P.O.Box 9011, Temecula, CA 92589. Although the whole letter looks like it is from a government agency, the envelope has a print “THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT”. I then google and find out this web site to confirm my suspicion.
As the goverment do nothing to ban these crooks, I think we should inform all the business partners. We probably ask the government to have a new law that prohibit the use of the like government’s document with the intention to deceit and gain money from others. In my case, if I was too busy to read carefully both the letter and the envelope (someone might just throw the envelope or do not read all the prints on the envelope), or do not found out this web site, I would become a victim of them.

Hey I just got this scam today. And guess what, they have moved to Sacramento and now charge $125.
What a bunch of scammers!

We received our Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement today. They want $125 AND all of our officers and directors names AND a copy of our annual shareholder minutes. I wouldn’t be surprised if they sold this information to other companies as well.
I Googled the address (3053 Freeport Blvd. Sacramento, CA). This appears to be a residential area south of the downtown area. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is how to “make cash working from home by stuffing envelopes”. They probably send all the checks from the victims in and get a percentage of the cut. Appparently it does well as it looks like it’s been around for a few years. I was given this invoice and it seemed official enough until I started reading it. We could have easily paid it had this been a “busy” day.
I’m surprised this is not considered fraud. It’s obviously a blatant attempt to disguise their “service” (which is not even clearly stated!) as a governmental tax.
Thanks for the site! I hope it helps others in the future as it has helped me and the previous posters.

We got a request for our annual minutes from these scumbags located at Corporation Compliance Recorder, PO Box 66186, LA.
Since we had only been incorporated in Jan, I thought is was interesting that they wanted our annual minutes. I hemmed and hawed (whatever that means) and finally called the Atty whose office did the incorporation. They advised that this is a major scam.
I will call Michael Finney at KGO, SF, and will send out a viral email about these disgusting individuals. Please do the same.

Thank you for posting this. I just received a letter from “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” saying that I need to send $150 to PO Box 9011, Temecula CA 92589. Their phone number is 866-235-7341. I almost sent it in! It’s hard enough to get a business off the ground without people trying to scam you. It’s disgusting that the Secretary of State is not taking action against these people. What tipped me off? I only had 10 days to pay and my minutes aren’t due until December. Fortunately I was paying attention.

I just recieved the letter stating I owe $150 and wen i called the phone # 866-235-7341 it was answered by a call center girl named Marta. She did not know whe the CEO or owner of the company or anyone else affiliated with the company.
This letter was so misleading and I plan on complaining until these theives are uncovered and hopefully made and example of so more unknowing people are not taken for their money.

As I was getting my checkbook out, my gut told me to doublecheck the details, so I went online and thankfully found this blog.
Please keep me posted if there is any class action being developed which I can help out with.
I took a second to do the math-
If they are mailing out in batches of 40,000, and only get a 20% return of 8,000 letters with checks, they make $ 1.2 million off of one run. (minus postage- from my envelope I can see that they paid full not bulk- so .39 x 40,000 = $15,600.) So hypothetically, that could be an profit of
$ 1,184,400.00 on one run. Small business owners make up such a massive percentage of our country. I really hope something is done soon.

Thank you very much for your info. We just received a letter from “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” P.O. Box 9011, Temecula, CA requesting $150.00. Looks like they are running around, now they have new Temecula, CA location. Probably, they are almost out of business that’s why they have found the cheapest location. Anyway, thank you again for this website.

I own three some companies and got three such letters. Thanks to this web site I saved $375. Thanks to everyone for reporting this BS.

I also receieved the scam letter from The Compliance Annual Minutes Board
PO BOX 9011, Temecula, CA 92589.
I plan to send copies of this letter to my local Postal Inspection Service in Pasadena, CA as well as Pam in the Sacramento office (reference by others).
I agree with all of you…let’s do our part to shut this scum down.
Tony

This may be significant information for you, the scammed public and for the authorities as well:
I received a name for the “president” of the company, Anthony Williams, and an email address for him as well: badbodysforlife@verizon.net
No joke, badbodysforlife. Sounds like a gangster to me. Thanks to all of us, a very rich gangster.
I guarantee you that the authorities are too inept, indifferent, unmimpressed by this scam to do anything about it. But if you or I don’t pay a parking ticket, they will show up at our house in the middle of the night to take our car away to the impound yard.
I will pester someone at the USPS to take a closer look at this and I urge all of you to do the same.
Regards,
Tony

I must admit smart idea to trick people. I almost cut a check too. But thanks to the Internet and people like Laurel, Brian and you folks I just saved a $150. If there is nothing illegal in the eye of the Justice in what they do, nothing is going to happen. That’s why it is double smart I think. The only thing we can really do is keep informing people and asking our local Newspapers to write articles to let everybody know.

I received a letter from Compliance Annual Minutes Board Directors and Shareholders Annual Fee $150.00 this letter did not make sents to me so i called the number 866-235-7341 and it was a bad number.
address P.O Box 9011 Tamecula, Ca 92589. Thank you for providing this web site i almost set the check.
Natasha

The letter is in San Diego California now as well. Expert Drug Testing, Inc. received the same letter as everyone else has noted. My business partner was ready to send them the info and cut the check until I noticed it said “THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT” on the envelope. I Google ‘d the Compliance Annual Minutes Board and found your site. As a small business we all need to keep our eyes open on scams like this and save our money for the real bills. Visit us at http://www.expertdrugtesting.com to find out more about us.

I just received my letter from Compliance Annual Minutes Board PO BOX 9011, Temecula, CA 92589, now witha phone number of 866.390.1176, which of course is just a recording. So, I thought I would look this up on the Internet. Good thing I did, because I found all these other complaints. I called the BBB that handles Temecula (909.825.7280) and they have no record of them. They suggested that I call the Attorney General.

Thanks so much. It does look official and a quick google search leading me to this website saved me the $125.

Thank you creators of this site, and everybody who took their time and reported about this appalling experience with these legal pickpockets. I saved $150 thanks to you.
I received this strange letter last week from COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD with notice date as of 10/21/06 and for payment of $150 due on 10/31/06, mailing address COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD BUSINESS PROCESSING DIVISION, PO BOX 9011, TEMECULA, CA 92589. It has my corporation number, right name and right address. I am pointing this, because I have corrected them just two weeks ago (before, there was misreporting and I have called Sacramento to correct it). There were two more agencies that I have recently reported corrections of my address: D&B and SBA. I have never received this type of letters before.I do not want to think that these agencies are sharing our information; I think somehow those gays have access to the secure websites, which is really dangerous think.
Thanks again, Flora

I received today what is called an Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement from a company called Corporation Compliance Recorder, P.O. Box 66186, Los Angeles, CA 90066. This scam is asking for a $125.00 “Disclosure and Processing Fee”. The suspicious looking logo, pre-stamped control number as well as the short payment due date was enough to research this letter and lead to your informative site. Thank you.

I just got the Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement and was about to pay it when I realized it was probably a very clever fake. Then I found this site. I posted a complaint at USPS mail fraud site online, and also sent the fake solicitation to USPS mail fraud office in Sacramento. The person who answered the phone at CCC tel 866 833 4085 had to ask whether her company was a state org or not, and then said she was just an answering service. I told her to get another job!

Thanks for posting this.
I got the same mail from a Corporate Filings Division in Sacramento. Went on google, typed in their postal address (9175 Kiefer Blvd. #312, Sacramento, CA 95826) and your site came up.
I knew it’s fishy because it didn’t have any official California seal and there was no official state government department name associated with it. Your site confirmed it’s a scam.

I got the Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement. but take note that it tries to protect itself from being sued or otherwise as postal fraud.”California B&P Code: 17533.6 This product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency and this office is not beign made by an agency of the government. U.S.C 39 & 3001(d). This is a solicitation for the order of services, and not a bill, invoice, or statement of account due. You are under no obligation to make any payments on account of this office unless you accept this offer by submitting this disclosure statement, the corporation certifies the information contained herein is true and correct.” what a laugh… always look at small print.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I received the “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” requesting that I send $125 to their address at 3053 Freeport Blvd #310, Sacramento, CA 95818. I am including the address with this post because many people find this site by googling the address. With small businesses trying to survive the deluge of legitimate paperwork, it is easy to be taken in by as scam such as this. I belong to several listservs and plan to post a warning about this scam on all of them. Again, thank you.

I received the “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” today – this one asking for $175 annual fee to be mailed to 9175 Kiefer Blfd. # 312, Sacramento, CA 95826 by 11/14/06. I knew it was phony because the annual fee is only $25.
Thank you!

I received the similar letter from “California compliance recorder” asking for $125 before Nov. 13th, $175 if I missed that date. I started filling up the forms but became skeptical in the end and decided to google and landed up here.
Thanks a lot for the blog. I owe you a beer.

I too received the letter “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” from The Corporation Compliance Recorder at PO Box 66186, Los Angeles CA 90066 requesting $125 before 11/13 or remit $175 if date missed. I was baffled not knowing why or who would want this information, so I went on line & THANK YOU! you took a load off my back. This is our 1st new business & bad enough I’m a bit weary of the year end out come & if I’ve been handling my books correctly. THANK YOU for being here! 🙂

Just to confirm some info – I live just down the street from the 3053 Freeport Blvd address in Sacramento – its a UPS Store ie an old Mailboxes Etc. location, so that’s where you are being asked to send your checks to.

My company got one today from Corporate Business Bureau in Los Angeles (8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd, #110-727). They wanted $150! These people work so hard that if they just worked that hard in a legal way they would be successful!

I got a similar scam mail today demanding a payment of $150 paid to COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD, Business Processing Division. P.O. Box 9011 Temecula, CA 92589.
I got suspecious and searched online and found your website. Thank you very much.
How can we stop these crooks?

My office has been getting many calls from customer’s that have been receiving notices from the Compliance Annual Meeting Board located in Temecula. After finding this web-site, I decided to call all of my customers that we helped Incorporate over the last two years and warn them about this scam. Thank you!

I also got a letter (very official looking) from “compliance Annual Minutes Board” requesting $150. 866-390-1176 PO Box 9011 Temecula CA 92589. I’m so glad I got to this website before sending any money. This is ridiculous and I hope these crooks get caught and punished by authorities very soon.

Another potential victim of California Corporatye Compliance thwarted by your excellent website. thanks so much

Was in a rush to get out of town and had just that bit of admin to get done (pay the $150) when I did a quick Google search and found your site. Thank you. Saved me $150–which was spent in much more fun ways on vacation than to scummy scammers!

I just received the letter from “COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD”. The more I thought about it, the more it felt like a scam. I’m glad for the Internet to help me quickly find out it is a scam. I’m an attorney and would be willing to help out in a class action against these folks. Email me at xgamertc-nospam@yahoo.com.

I just received a notice from the Corporation Compliance Recorder and was puzzling over it when I found your site. Thanks for saving me the $125.

I just received a notice from the Corporation Compliance Recorder asking for the $125.00 or if late $175.00

Thanks. We just got one from “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” of Temecula, California; looks like their prices have gone up to $150.
Will do the requisite filing with the BBB and any other proper entity.
Sorting this out was quick and fast due to your blog. Thanks.

Any one heard of or received anything from “CORPORATE BUSINESS BUREAU” Located at 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd #110-727, Los Angeles, CA 90045? Got a letter from them stating that I need to pay $150.00 for “Annual Minutes of Shareholder & Directors Disclosure Statement”. What’s that about?

OK, so I just read the previous threads/posts and it’s the same people. Then I guess my next question would be, do us business owners MUST file for these so-called disclosure statement every year? If so, where do we do that ourselves? This is all new to me, just getting started. Any tips or insights would be appreciated, thank you!

You are awesome! I filled out the entire form for a California corporation then decided to to a Google search and found your post. You saved me $150.
Just so anyone Googling their address will find this post, here is their information.
It was supposed to be return to:
COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD
BUSINESS PROCESSING DIVISION
PO BOX 9011
TEMECULA, CA 92589

I received this letter and called the number, looked like a scam and so I googled the phone number and found you. They should be closed down ASAP, They are ripping people off

Thanks for the info. I just recd. one from:
COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD
BUSINESS PROCESSING DIVISION
PO BOX 9011
TEMECULA, CA 92589
It was in my mail box and bfore I could get at it the mailman did his job, so I have stopped payment based on timely advice from my CPA. What a scam!!!
Thanks for confirming my CPA’s advice.

I’ve received similar correspondence in the past, and found a useful article that had an actual contact at the California Attorney General’s office who is looking into this:
“To assist the California Department of Justice in tracking solicitations, forward any solicitations received (including the envelope) to:
Susie Lorden, Associate Governmental Program Analyst
CA Department of Justice / Office of the Attorney General Consumer Law Section
110 West A Street, Suite 1100
San Diego, California 92101.”
I sent in my information in December 2006, and received a phone message from Ms. Lorden who thanked me for sending in the entire mailing, so I encourage those of you who receive similar documents to send the info in as well to help build up the case against this and similar scams.
Here’s the URL for the original article that I read about this scam and the AG’s contact information:
http://www.companycounselor.com/2006/11/california_solicitations.html

We fell for this one. It’s not the lost money (scam fee) that concerns me. What concerns me is that this bogus company now has our corporate minutes. What can they do with corporate minutes? Consider this, a friend of mine had her corporate minutes stolen and they were used to open accounts at stationary supply stores. Bills were then quickly run up to the tune of $21,000.
We filed a police report in case we have to make an insurance claim. We also filed a report with the california State Attorney General’s Office and reported to a local news channel so that at least the businesses in our area can be forewarned.
Thinking of it, since the Government Agencies seem to be powerless to do anything (this scam has been running for years)reporting this silly situation to 20/20 or someone like that might be more effective to handle these guys.

I almost fell for this. I found your site instead. Thank You. The letter was the same, wanting $150.00, with a return address in Temecula. I thought that was odd. I agree with the the above comment, that a major news agency should get involved. It would shut these theives down.

I got a similar scam mail today demanding a payment of $150 paid to COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD, Business Processing Division. P.O. Box 9011 Temecula, CA 92589.
It seems suspicious. I came online looking for it. My goodness, I have come across your blog. Thank you very much.
I’m in if you guys are planning on shutting this guy down, He has the company name /no address. where the hell he is getting it from

I almost got scammed today by the same Temecula operation. $150 almost gone. A couple of things looked funny to me with the letter. Including their cheese dick American eagle emblem on the top of the page.
I am going to report this to the DOJ and urge others to follow.

I got the letter today from Temecula. I just started my corporation and almost fell for it. They wanted $150. At first, I just skimmed over the notice. It seemed strange, but I wasn’t sure. Thank goodness I came across this site.
I went back and read the notice word for word. It actually states that it is only a service. It looks official though. The bottom of the notice states “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”. I hope this doesn’t make it legal for them. I want them to burn in hell!

Unfortunately, these people are still out there. I am their latest victim. I did not read the fine print – I just took over A/P for my husband’s company. I was too busy to read the fine print. When I received a delinquent notice from California Secretary of State, I pulled the form out. I called the phone number, and I received an answering service. I became suspicious immediately, then she read the fine print to me.
I called the CA Secretary of State. They said that they cannot advise people that this is a scam. However, they did state your corporate minutes are to be filed with the Franchise Tax Board. I will be calling that department tomorrow. Regardless, I do not think it will cost $150.00 to send a form to the CA FTB.
Everyone needs to pass the word out about this company. If you have friends with small businesses, let them know that this scam continues!!

We were also scammed by Corporate Compliance Center, 2740 Fulton Ave. Ste 203, Sacramento for $120.00 this year, and Compliance Division at 9175 Kiefer Blvd. #312, Sacramento, CA95826 last year for $150.00. Thanks for the posts – we caught this year’s check just in time. Crooks!

I almost paid the 150.00 but I wanted to double check and find this site.. the letter I got was form the compliance annueal minutes board from Temecula.. Almost felt.. Thanks for the site and comments

I also got the notice from CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE 3053 Feeport Blvd# 310 sacramento ca 95818 and I wrote a check for $125, While i am trying to find on what name I should write a check got little suspecious about it. Hence I was looking in the internet and stumbled on this blog. Its good that this information is available on internet. Now I tore my check as well as the notice
good luck.

Try $125 if I don’t mail this in 3 days from now and $175 for being late. Thanks for this Great information. I am new to this corporation business and read this over and over again. My blood pressure increased till I found your page. Thanks for the great info.
It’s hard to believe what people will do to Cheat another.
Regards… Bill
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The Corporate Compliance Center sent us a form that should be filled up and submitted on Feb 28, 2007.
Since our group is just starting and we don’t have funds, I was freightened with the asked $150 fee. Besides, I am skeptical so I surfed the web and fortunately, I found your postings. Thank you so much for all your effort and help in keeping others aware of these frauds. It does sure preven others from becoming victims.
Kudos and keep up the good job.
Sincerely,
Perla S. Vega
MOTHER Founder and Exec. Director

ME TOO, this is crazy. I recieved a letter in the mail stating the same information as you all and I thought WOW $125 due in 4 days what type of notice is that. I almost got fooled but happened to go online and tried to download another copy because I messed up on this one, that’s when i saw this website. I am soooo lucky, and i hope that others get curious and start searching for info on this material and finds this website. Thanks for starting this, it saved me $125 that I didn’t have in the first place to give!!! THANK YOU….Hopefully those SUCKERS will get caught in due time 🙂

Thanks for the opportunity to vent. It seems that’s the only thing we can do if these scoundrels can steal from people so brazenly and the government does nothing about it. I was lucky with the form I received from CORPORATION COMPLIANCE RECORDER levying a fee of $125 (there is a $50 charge for late filing) for filing the Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement. I completed the form, wrote the date on the check then glanced at the form for the name of the payee. I then realized there was no telephone number on the form and that the seal was not the California Great Seal. I googled the name and landed on your site. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for posting this matter on the net. I almost write out a check (today is my deadline before the $50 late fee would be imposed). I will make these people pay for this misleading and misrepresentation scam. Again, thanks.

They are now using the name California Corporate Headquarters Address is 3308 El Camino Ave. #300 – 609 Sacramento, CA 95821. They are still using the phone number (866)217-4167 Nothing but a scam

I am reviewing all of you who have received these types of letters because I also got one in the mail. Seems this is an extreme problem with email complaints from last year. Nothing has been done and it continues. Why doesn’t someone take action?
Scams are hurting business owners.

Thank you guys for all the info. In the attempt of trying to be compliant, I found all of you guys, thanks to hinessight. Funny, I received 2 of these compliance requests, 1 from Los Angeles and the other form Sacramento here in CA. Both arrived the same time, same color paper but different addys, zeals and Department names; Dept title words were swaped. No phone number … Ok guys I reported it myself. Its a reminder to all of us to be more alert, knowledgeable about our craft, and OK … be compliant. We won this time, but they are mutating right now, be aware. Good luck to all, Setu

My firm is pursuing a class-action lawsuit against Corporate Compliance Recorder, the author of the document.
If you are interesting in opting-in to the lawsuit, please let me know.

UGH! I FELL FOR IT! Crap. 🙁 The only reason I got suspicious was that I received the CCC one in the mail today and I had already knew I ‘complied’ with the “Corporate Compliance Recorder” earlier by sending them a $175!! (I’m an idiot and even fell for the late fee! ARGH!!!).
If there is a class action suit, I’m in!
These guys got $175 from a non-profit that is being set-up to help homeless teens in San Diego…currently funded 100% from my retirement account 🙁

I just got this same damn thing today in the mail and googled and ended up here.
I thought it was legit by my spouse caught the “not a government document” since she does the finance stuff. They really did a job making it look official.

Get this – I just found out the $175 check OVERDREW my account and cost me another $27 in an overdraft fee… Ironic, huh? :-/

I am glad we had a non-profit attorney review it for us or our company would have paid this as well. If there is a petition or a way to turn this company in please contact me. This is absolutely horrible!!!

WHY THE HELL DOESN’T CALIFORNIA (OR SCHWARZENEGGER) OR THE FEDERAL POST OFFICE, OR OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES, CARE ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS CRIMINAL FRAUD? WHY DO THEY JUST LET IT RUN ON AND ON? WHY DO THEY NOT SEEM TO CARE?
Robert Paul Howard

Corporation Compliance Recorder, Corporate Compliance Center or whatever name they are using now is a complete and total sham. Unfortuantely I did not Google the firm until after I received a number of similar appearing “requests” for annual minutes but each with a slightly different name and each asking for diferent amounts of money. I had already sent $125.00 in order to be “in compliance.” I am not unfamiliar with business as I have an MBA, teach college accounting and business and have been a business owener for over twenty five years. Yet I fell for this scam by rushing trying to juggle all of the various real government filing requirements and still earn a living. This seems like mail fraud and it is a shame that according to previous posts no one seems willing to do anything about it. I am going to alert a business reporter at the Los Angeles Times and maybe they will publish a story about the scam.

Our company received the same letter this year – I caught the scam this time, but it looks like we paid the $125 last year. I reported the fraud to the USPS through the link other users have provided.

I’m just plain devastated that I actually mailed the check prior to finding this website. I recently received the Form 4780C, entitled Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement. I completed the form, and enclosed the payment of $125 to what I thought was an official recording agency. After reading the form thoroughly, now, I can see where, in the fine print, it states that this form is a solicitation for services. The official format and heading just looked so believable. The company, California Corporation Compliance, is whom I hold accountable for misrepresenting their agency and official reporting requirements. The address is 3053 Freeport Blvd., Ste. 310 Sacramento, CA 95818. Stupid me, when I reviewed the address, I said to myself, “Okay it’s going to Sacramento, so it must be an official required document.” I guess they figured using a Sacramento address would assist them in their con game. I even followed the instructions enclosed with the form, on how to complete the form. I wish there were some way to recoup the funds lost and to prevent this from happening to others.

I am just now about to send form CCR-34D and so I read the whole thing and what caught my eye is “requirement code 3001” then it states “this is a solicitation…” but thanks to your site, my suspicion may have fallen by the wayside.

Corporation Compliance Recorder scam is still alive and well here in the Los Angeles Ca. area.
Today, We received one of those “official” statement notices. At first; I though, ow @#&% I forgot to process the required minutes; however, I wanted to see if I could file it electronically via the Secretary of State’s website, most form can be filed, I researched the form # given CCR-30D; low-and-behold no such form existed on the website, hum, suspicious. I then GOOGLE search, “Corporation Compliance Recorder,” the first hit was your website.
Outstanding job and thank you.
Another win for us, another loss for the scammers.
Beware

This is definitely a scam, as investigated by my accountant. In our case (CA) the address given was 3053 Freeport Blvd, #310, Sacremento. Since this is a physical address the Attorney General should be contacted so that they can investigate and catch these perps…..

I followed up with the D.A.’s office today.
Near the bottom of the first page there is a statement in small print that says “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. U.S.C. 39 sec 3001(d) This is a solicitation for the order of services and not a bill, invoice or statement of account due. You are under no obligation to make any payments on account of this offer unless you accept this offer”.
Unfortunately, based on the existence of this statement in the fine print, the D.A.’s office is aware of, but CANNOT Prosecute, this organization. They say that the font size must be 10 points or larger. If you can prove that the font size on your “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” is less than 10 points, maybe the D.A. will take your case…..sorry for anybody that gets scammed by this one.

I too was scammed. I was hoping for assistance in catching up on some pass due paperwork. I do blame the scam artists but also the government for creating all the burdensome hoops small businesses have to jump through.

Recieved one of those letters today – did not fall for it but was incensed. Looks as if there is a class action suit – see this link I found in searching:http://www.akuaku.org/archives/2006/09/california_corp.shtml
(but make sure it is legit itself)

Awesome website! I was just getting ready to cut a check for $120 when I smelled something fishy. The letter I got had the 2740 Fulton Ave Ste 203 address (Sacramento, CA). After doing some rearch, I found a good rule of thumb: Always check for the following code anywhere on the piece of mail
“CA Business & Professional Code Sec 17533.6 This service as not been approved or endorsed by any governmental agency, and this offer is not being made by an agency of the government”
Sure enough, the same statement was printed on the bottom of the mail I received. Sneaky, sneaky.

This is the second “Compliance Notice” that I received this year. The first one I received suggested that my minutes filing was late and I had even incurred a penalty late fee… the kicker was that although I received it on March 13th, it was considered “Late” on March 9th. Then the postmark was for March 10th… Didn’t all add up so I looked more closely and saw a “we are not a govt agency….” and tossed it in anger. Today I received another variation on the same theme from “Corporate Compliance Center at 2740 Fulton Ave Ste 203 in Sacto, CA. 95821.” So, I filed a complaint with the Sacramento BBB. When I searched the BBB with the information, the company name of Compliance Filing came up instead. To my complete shock, there were NO complaints lodged against this one! So, not only did I print out a copy of my long winded complaint to the BBB, I attached a copy of it to my payment coupon slip and sent it back in the return envelope provided. I wrote… “In Leiu of Payment…”

I just got this notice and immediately was suspicious it was a scam. Anytime you get a letter citing legal codes you got to be cautious. Sure enough I find this website. Thank you guys for doing this.

Just got my letter in the mail. It sort of looks like the annual sec of state filing. Through me for a loop for a minute, so I am glad I came across this site before sending off the money.

I got a notice from “Compliance Annual Minutes Board” Business division P.O. Box9011, Temecula, CA 92589 asking for $150.00 to complete my minutes and thanks to your web page I DID NOT send them any money.

I received a pretty convincing form with a copy of a copy of a copy letter. After seeing the copied letter I got suspicious and started doing some research. There are other reports on this and I am so very thankful. They do (in very small print) say “This product or services has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency and this offer is not being made by an agency of the government.” I truly do feel bad for those who do not take the time to read before they send out the money. The return information on this one is: Compliance Annual Minutes Board
Business Division PO box 9011
Temecula, CA 92589
(866) 390-1176
Im so gratful we continue keeping each other informed!

Received the form 2006 form 4780c today 4/23/o7 . It was something I had not seen befor, after 25 years in business. So I went on line and sure enough it is a scam. Like so many others my question is what is taking our government so long to solve and arrest thes people. Imogene

My accountant got suspicious with this
California Corporate Compliance requirement
and the fee they are asking every year. He searched for the company’s name on the internet and found out the same scam. Hope this people be investigated incarcerated for a long time.

I JUST GOT A REQUEST TO FILL OUT A
“ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE STATEMENT” from
CORPORATE COMPLIANCE FILINGS AND REQUEST FOR $175 CHECK TO BE MADE OUT TO THEM (NOT TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA),
Their address is:
9175 KIEFER BLVD #336
SACRAMENTO, CA 95826.
THERE IS NO SUCH BUSINESS LISTING WHEN I SEARCHED IT ON GOOGLE. IN FACT, IT HAPPENS TO BE A LOCATION WHERE PEOPLE USE A PRIVATE MAIL BOX. I BELIEVE IT’s A UPS Store.
IT MUST BE A SCAM.
WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THIS?

Thank you for posting this. You just saved our little non-profit $175.00…not small potatoes for us. What a lesson! I will file a complaint. So sorry someone is taking advantage of those of us who are trying to take care of everyone else. What a state of affairs…

Hello,
I received a letter from Corporation Compliance Recorder. Address: P.O.Box 66186 In Los Angeles, CA 90066.
I googled them prior to sending out anything, and I thank God for this wonderful website. It gave me heads up. I wrote down the info and reported them to USPS Inspectors. I feel great and I would like to see them prosecuted for defrauding legal corporations. My CPA also warned me not to fall for these type of letters.
Thank you again
Shantal

I received the Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement along with an instruction sheet and a return envelope. It appears that this scam has made its way across the country to New York. both envelopes read “New York Corporate Compliance – Business Division”. What got my attention, before I read the fine print on the form, was the instructions request that the $125 check be made payable to the California Corporate Compliance.
The addresses referenced by NYCC are:
1843 Central Ave. #168
Albany, NY 12205
and
3053 Freeport Blvd. #310
Sacramento, CA 95818

I just received the same scam letter from:
CORPORATE BUSINESS BUREAU
Corporate Business Division
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd, #110-727
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Requesting an Annual Fee of $150.00
Guess they had to raise the scam fee from $125 to $150 to adjust for inflation.
I’ll see if there is a BBB or something where I can post a complaint

After opening the business envelope marked “This is not a government document”, I immediatley realized this information plus $125.00 fee was not requested by ANY Department within the State of California.
I was curious if ANY business would complete the form and send money. I found your website and apparently this scam is very old and still running. Shame to these “Rat-Bastards”! Thanks for keeping this website up and the recent postings from many businesses in many communities.

Wow, I almost fell for this scam. I completed the form and was actually cutting a check when it occurred to me this felt wrong. It’s like the Yellow Pages invoices companies receive. Looks real but it’s completely unnecessary.

My question to all of you is why is this a scam. I have used the services of CCC for 6 years now. If you have a CA corporation, you are required to hold and document an annual meeting in which you elect your directors and officers. My attorney was charging me upwards of $400 for this same thing. I actually had an audit 2 years ago and that is one of the things they wanted to see was that I had all of those documents in order from my date of incorporation. If anyone here has a better alternative, let me know.

Trueman, you have to be kidding. And very possibly part of this scam. Or else you’re the most guillible person on this planet.
I’ve been in charge of both a non-profit and for-profit corporation. It’d take me about ten minutes or less to whip up annual meeting minutes, a template for which you can download for free from web sites.
The CCC scam is just that–a scam. Good try at trying to dignify it with your comment. Nobody should be fooled by it. Throw any crap you get from the Corporation Compliance folks in the trash.
That’s the only place it belongs, because it is total garbage.

I immediately had antennae stand erect when I received my letter from California Corporate Compliance. They strongly suggested my sending them $125 to the Sacramento address.
Having been a victim of the Nigerian oil scam (lost about $700 in phone calls, thankully, nothing more) I look twice at any “government” document I receive.
I strongly believed this was a dupe, but after my Google to you, I’m glad you could confirm it for me. Just shows where ethics are nowadays.

I received the same and wrote out a check.
Before I mailed it, i pored over the letter and saw the small print and immediately shredded the letter and check.
Unbelievable!
Glad I could find out about them on your blog….which I stumbled upon after googling.

Same thing-Glad I looked it up on here to confirm my suspicion! I am filing a complaint with the mail service as well.

Received this notice the other day and almost sent a check until my gut said read it again. It has been a great reminder to myself that I must always double or triple check info about my corporation etc… I am so sorry to those of you who got scammed. I must hold these people in my thoughts and prayers that they will see the error of their ways.
Thank you for providing this info on your site.
Blessings,
Rev. Jo Tierney
http://www.centerforinspiration.us

THANKS ALOT TO YOUR BLOG AND GOOGLE TO RATE YOU SO HIGH.
I filled the form, check, stamped it and then it smelled funny – so I googled and hooray I found your blog rated 1st.
I hope those scammers will get a visit from a Russian mafia shadow corporation who will teach them a chapter on scams, assisted with a pen, paper and a baseball bat.

I just received this for my NEW YORK corporation, so these guys are active in New York State as well.
It’s from “New York Corporate Compliance” with an Albany address. If you read the fine print, you will see that it is not official. They want $125. I’m sure they have fooled many people. I agree with many of the other commenters here that their fine print is not sufficient to defend them from charges of deception.
I am going to contact the State Attorney General’s office.

Here’s a USPS Postal Inspectors Mail Fraud online complaint form. The more complaints they receive, the more likely they will do something.
https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/MailFraudComplaint.htm

I just received a “Fictitious Business Renewal Form” (May, 2007), from Corporation Compliance, requesting $100 for Alameda County, California. I was suspicious, due to the mass-mailing format. Thanks for the scam info! I’ll file a complaint with USPS, too.

I ALSO RECIEVED THIS LETTER FROM CORPORATION COMPLIANCE RECORDER, THE FUNNY THING IS THAT I JUST SET UP MY CORPORATION AND I HAD NOT DONE ANY BUSINESS. I WAITED FOR ABOUT 3MONTHS READY TO PAY 175 WHICH IS WHAT YOU PAY IF YOU ARE LATE. I COULD NOT FIND THE PAPERS ANY MORE, BUT I HAD THEIR ENVELOPE, SO CHECK BOOK IN HAND AND READY TO GO, I DECIDED TO DO A GOOGLE SEARCH AND FIGURE OUT HOW I CAN MAKE THE PAYMENT WIHTOUT THE PAYMENT STUB AND TO MY GREAT RELIEF, I CAME ACROSS THIS WEBSITE. I AM SO CALLING DEPARTMENT OF CORPORATION. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS WEBSITE.

Thank you all for posting your notes and information. I just received one from:
California Corporate Compliance
Business Division
3053 Freeport Blvd. #310
Sacramento, CA. 95818

I was filling out the form when I realized that the logo looked bogus and the information asked where somewhat vague. Reading furhter on is writes, “The product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency…”
A big scam.
By the way, the address where I received this mailing is from:
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Division
1843 Central Avenue, #168
Albany, NY 12205

Hi,
Our company received the corporate compliance letter as well. Stating to “reply no later than 5/29/07…it’s a total scam!
I called the 888 # and spoke with a rep. he didn’t seem surprised to know that they were in poor standing with the BBB.
What a bunch of crooks!

Hello everyone,
I received the same letter from the Annual Minutes Compliance Board P O Box 38130, Los Angeles, CA. I’ve been in business for 7 years now and never had to pay any such fee so I was immediately suspicious. Thanks to this website I definitely know they are scam artists. Well I sent them a fake check for $95.00. Take that.

Thank you for the information. It is very helpful, especially for those who are just starting business.
We received one from Temecula, CA address.
COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD
BUSINESS PROCESSING DIVISION
P.O. BOX 9011
TEMECULA, CA 92589
Noticed all these addresses are P.O. Box only!

Thank you so much for posting this website! I became confused when I received an “Annual Minites Disclosure Statement” letter in the mail from California Corporate Compliance yesterday. I knew I had sent them $120 in April and now they were asking for $125! I called the Secretary of States office and found out that my $25 I send to them annually keeps me current with them! They told me that as of now California Corporate Compliance is not considered to be doing anything wrong. I was angry so I looked up last years records and found out what my $125 annual minutes disclosure got me. It was a short 3 pages worth of documents that would take no time to duplicate as I am the CEO, Secretary, and the Director. I just called the number(866-833-4085) and they told me I should receive a refund(no questions asked) in 7-10 days.Thanks again for posting this website. I hope this can prevent other people from being scammed also.

Wow, sorry to hear you all got scam, interesting I run a site about scamming also just happens I live in the Temecula area. Anybody know who is running this scam I am very interested in stopping any scam in my community these people are ruining our community. Let me know my website is http://www.coreclient.110mb.com and can be reached from the site. r/ cORE

I just got the new york version and after I read it, I’m like what the hell? First of all, I don’t even have a corporation so I was tipped off right away. As I read the fine print that says that it’s not affiliated with any gov agency, that definitely got me curious. Thanks to your site, I was able to confirm that this was 100 percent fake. Thanks a lot.

The bastards almost got me just now! I had the form filled filled out, the check cut, and the envelope stamped! Thank goodnes I decided to look the thing up on-line. When I went back to the document, I saw the fine type hidden near the bottom.
I’ve got to tip my hat to the crook that came up with that one. I don’t get taken for sucker ofter any more in NYC, but that was a close one.
Thanks Hinessight!

The NY Albany address is a Box at an Albany UPS store.
We received it yesterday at our place of business. Report it to the Attorney General

THANK YOU for the information, you just saved me $125. I am in SF and got one for my corporation, this information is wonderful and I hope you get your money back and more.
Cheers,

Hi everyone,
We just got the ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE STATEMENT today. We live in NYC. I googled the name “New York Corporate Compliance” and “scam” because 2 or 3 months ago we received a different scam about purchasing
posters for $95 for compliance, when we could easily get them from the govt for $5.
Anyway, I’m so glad you exposed this scam.
Thanks

well i guess they got me on this one even if i fond out were they cashed the check and it wont matter neway i guess

and i did go to the attorney general and faxed my letter i got to them

We just got a letter from COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD, P.O Box 9011, Temecula, CA 92589 today. They ask $150. We would like to paid because it looks like government form and we are new and small company. We just wanted to search how to fill out this form then we found this post. Thank you very much for this post. But we do think our government needs do something to stop this. We think many small and new companies like us, paid the fee already.
Thanks

I have received a letter from the NY Corporation Compliance Business Division requested my minutes and a $125 fee. This was very suspicious and I could not located any information on the NY State website about it. Thank you for supplying information here. Now I am sure that this is a scam.

First, thank you for posting this information. I too recieved a letter from these jerks. Like all small business owners, I am very busy. Therefore, I was upset to have and waste valuable time to research the mailing from these scamming scumbags.
I did spend 41 cents on a stamp.
I sent them their envelope.
On the outside of the envelope I wrote, “Urgent! Please open immediately.”
I also wrote, in small letters on the outside of the envelope. “check for $125 enclosed.”
The enclosed letter specifically indicated my displeasure with their organization written in large print. At the bottom of the letter, in very small print, it said, “Note: I may or may not have farted on this letter. Enjoy.”
Yes, it’s in poor taste. However, I think it’s funny.
(BTW: I did NOT fart on the letter. Please don’t tell the scammers that.)

Thank you, you save me $150, and more in the future.

We have been victimized by Corporation Compliance Recorder, located at PO Box 66186, Los Angeles, Ca. 90066. All I read here makes it more clearly to me that these businesses are some sort of “Mail Fraud” any one who has been victimized should contact USPS, and ask for detective to push for Federal Prosecution, on the ground of Mail fraud.

Just so you know, don’t get upset with the “receptionists” who pick up the phones when you call in either NY or GA. We’re actually an answering service that has little to do with the company, and service about 500 different clients, and we literally have no way of getting in contact with anyone of authority aside from taking a message. Yelling at us is ineffective, and most of us are very upset that we’re accepting calls from this client at all.

I’m a CPA and one of my clients just got a letter from COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD, P.O Box 9011, Temecula, CA 92589 today. I thought this looked fishy. Guess my hunch was correct.
Thanks for the info.

I got letter from Temecula, ca address. It stated that today July 9th 2007 was last day. I was about to send the check today but I lost forms somewhere so went online to print new forms and this site poped up when I google. Thanks to this site, it saved my $150.00

They are still at it…. $150.00 and its crap!!!

As a CPA in New York, I received a copy of this letter today, and it does state on it that it “has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency and this offer is not being made by an agency of the government”. I “googled” this to research this, and found this – saved my client $125!

We received a letter from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center at the 2740 Fulton Avenue, Suite 203 Sacramento, CA address. In big letters at the top it stated that it was a Fictitious Business Name Expiration Notice and stated that the $100 payment was due 7/31/07. Since we received it on the 18th, I have no doubt they do that so you’ll hurry and send payment w/o reading it carefully. At the very bottom, in small letters is the disclaimer that they are not a gov’t agency. I filed a complaint with the BBB and mailed a copy of it back to them with the payment stub.

I received one of these letters from “New York Corporate Compliance” requesting $125. Even though it say’s “not a government document” it looks very official. I smelled a scam right away and I was right. I will report this to the attorney general’s office right away and the BBB.

NY. Just received a “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” from NY Corporate Compliance. Very official looking indeed. (even with all the fine prints.) Customer Service Unit (866-468-6619) said they had nothing to do w/ the government. Thanks to Brian & Laurel!

I am residence of NYC, and just received mail looks like official letter from New York state, but it was fake.
It was came from NEW YORK CORPORATE COPLIANCE.(sounds like a government office)
I thought the logo on the envelope looks strange, and it does not said New york state, nor New york city.
I found this website by google.
Thank you for keeping up this website. You saved me $125.

Thanks,
I just got the notice at my office citing California Requirements that I pay $120. One quick google search brought up this website and showed me what the notice really was. Thank you for taking the time to post this, looks like you saved alot of us a good bit of money

I got scammed by this. Is there a class action site or a way to go about our refund?

I just got this from “California Corporate Services”, Business Division, 3308 El Camino Avenue, Suite 300-609, Sacramento CA 95821. Says right under the return address “This is not a government document”. Looks like they constantly change their address to avoid getting caught by us savvy bloggers and readers of blogs. We received a similar letter from a New York company & address a few months ago. Thanks for the notice here!

Thanks so much for this site. Our company received the notice from “California Corporate Services” and because it smelled a little fishy, I googled it and found this site. My suspicions were confirmed.
I also checked with the BBB of North/East California and there have only been 5 complaints against this fraudulent company -one which was resolved but the other 4 received no response. It is a shame that they can’t be shut down. Thanks again for the heads-up!

Watch out New Yorkers. They just popped up in New York State under:
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Service Division
1843 Central Ave #168
Albany, NY 12205-4735
866-468-6619
They requested information for Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement which I thought was a private information. I am reporting them to the NYS Authorities.

They’re still at it, using the Sacramento Freeport address – I didn’t read the fine print and paid the fee. They haven’t taken the money yet, so I’m going to put a stop payment on the check. I went online to get a copy of the form for my records and not be late with the payment next year, and then I couldn’t find the form online! I came upon this site and found out it was a scam. Thanks for the info!

Got a letter:
california corporate services
business division
3308 el camino ave., #300…
Sacramento, ca 95821
is there any way to get these guys besides submitting a complaint into a black hole? thanks.

oh… in addition to the above, i googled the address and found out that “3308 el camino ave” in sacramento is a UPS store. It is a private po box.

Thanks to this website, after I type in the payment address, I was able to find your website and learn about the scam of this Annual Minutes Disclosure statment with $150 dated 7/16/07. Lucky me, I almost going to cut the check for this!! Thanks again!!!

THANKS SOOOOOOOO MUCH. It looked fishy so i did a google search and found this website. Appreciate the info.

Oh Wow Thank You!! My boss was getting after me because we thought we had to pay $175 to these people since he didn’t get this “statement” in time… so I googled it to try to find a phone number and found this instead! Thank goodness!!!!

Just received the same letter from a company called
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Services Division
1843 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12205
(866) 468-6619
Thanks to this blog I was able to determine it was a scam and not send them the $125.

I hade just filed a complain with better business bureau, thanks to this website. I received a letter from Compliance annual Minutes Board asking for $150.00 or I will lose limited liability on our corporation. I read the fine print on the botton of the letter and it says it is not a government agency or nor has being approved by the goverment. I almost sent the check, but I google the company’s name and read the posting on this website. I think we should all take 5 minutes to file a complain, and stop this people. thank for this website

This is a SCAM. Read the fine print ” This is a service and Not a Bill , invoices or statement due. No obligation to make any payments unless you accept this offer” for a fee of 95.00
Annual Minites Compliance Board
Business processing Division
PO box 38130
Los Angeles, Ca 90038-0130
Letter recived by mail very official looking
Can fool anyone. Aug 17 2007 Glendale CA.
Be advised no official state or government letter can be sent to Los Angeles, Its alwasys Sacramento CA.
thanks.

This scam just went to State of NY as well. Luckily, I was too lazy to respond initially and then panicked when I realized I was late getting back to them. It does look official but it also says on the envelope that “THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT”. What a bunch of scum backs. BTW, they are charging $125 for me.

Do not send $ 125 To
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Services Division
1843 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12205
(866) 468-6619
This is a scam letter
Please read buttum portion of this letter

I am a lawyer in NYC.
I received a call from a managing agent of a coop I represent about this letter, and had her fax it to me.
At first blush, it does appear somewhat official, but luckily I Googled the company and came upon this blog.
There really isn’t much you can do worthwhile but throw away the letter.

I am so glad I found this website before I’d mailed out the check. I’d just started a company and with all the paperwork that I’ve been filling out, this looked legitimate for a moment.
The outside of the envelope says “BUSINESS MAIL – IMPORTANT NOTICE ENCLOSED. THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT” The sender is from COMPLIANCE ANNUAL MINUTES BOARD
Business Processing Division
P.O. Box 9011
Temecula, CA 92589
They asked for a $150 annual fee and a record of directors and shareholders. They attached a sheet of paper that contained California corporations codes.
This is such a scam! Thank you to everyone who posted.

Yup, I got the same scam with same addresses provided by those above. My mail did not indicate that this was NOT a government document, nor did it explicitly claim that this was optional and not mandatory. It only described: “This service assists corporations”.
Best thing to do is go to the US Postal Service Postal Inspection site and find your nearest office: http://www.usps.com/ncsc/locators/find-is.html
And by the way, can anyone tell me, speaking of scams, why the USPS is now using “com” instead of “gov”. I’d already heard of many attempts to privatize the USPS by executive order in this ridiculous administration. I wouldn’t want my complaint to go to some political appointee who made his money on the same scams I’m reporting. Something tells me he wouldn’t be likely to do much.

I was just reading and re-reading the same notice from the Corporation Compliance Recorder. I was looking for their phone number and I could not find it anywhere. It seems they only want contact with you via your check. I am glad I found this website. Thank you.

Got one for New York! Thanks for posting this to confirm it’s a scam.

Company has been paying for years for NOTHING! Thanx for creating site. Will join any class action & make complaints.

I Got this letter in New York, back in early August, The Info was turned over to
the Westchester County DA, and to the New York Attorney Generals office, I haven’t
recieved a answer from either.I have also spoken to several people who almost sent in
all that info and the $125.00. These people
need to be stopped now!!

I received their Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement for a company I dissolved 3 yrs ago which made me suspicious. I looked them up in the NYS government website and could not find their division so I googled their name instead and found your website. Thank you for your information. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau even though I did not send any money but I asked the BBB to forward my complaint to the proper authorities. Thanx again.

Just received an “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” for my husband’s business. I’m an accountant and thought this was weird as I’ve never seen this. I did see it says this is not a government document. I googled the phone number they provide for customer service and came on this website. Thanks so much. I’ll be writing the better business bureau.

After receiving two letters in the last week, one from the Temecula address and one from:
California Corporate Services
Business Division
3308 El Camino Avenue, Suite 300-609
Sacramento, CA 95821
i decided to google this and find out it is not legal and these are ALL SCAMS.
Sadly, i checked our past records, and we have paid twice last year: once to the Temecula address and once to:
California Corporate Compliance
3053 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95818
I cannot believe these people get away with this year after year!!! I called the # on the Temecula letter, and it is just some guy on an old answering machine.
Please pass it on to any corporations you know.

I received this form yesterday for a corporation I had just incorporated and it didn’t seem right to me. They are asking me for $125.00 due in 7 days. Since I didn’t have a good feeling about it, I tried to search it on the calif corp websit and the secretary of state web site with no luck at all. I did a web search and got this web site. More should be posted on the official web sites about this scam.

Thanks for keeping this comment section up! I googled:
Corporation Compliance Recorder
P.O. Box 66186
Los Angeles, California 90066
They asked for $125 or $175 after the remit date. Instead of complaining to the toothless BBB, I’ll report this to the IRS and the US Postal Service.

I got one for Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center with an address of:
2740 Fulton Ave., Ste 203
Sacramento, CA 95821-5183
I just started a new job which involves some A/P thanks for saving me $100.

Thanks for setting up this blog – I too was suspicious when I saw a “governmental looking” DBA renewal form that had the words “this is a solicition” at the bottom of it. Since when does the government solicit? I asked myself, and why wont someone answer the phone number provided? Thanks to your blog here, I saved $125. FYI the mailing address on my form was 916 J Street, Sacramento – you wont find it on Google!

I just received this letter in New York City with the following return address:
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Services Division
1843 Central Avenue, #168
Albany, NY 12205
866-468-6619
Thank you all for your posts,
jlc

Gotta love the power of the Internet. I ALMOST fell for it today. Got the form back in July but just today I filled it out and I was about to drop it in mail when I decided to do a lookup before I sent it. Sure enough, found blogs reporting it as a scam. Thanks to all who take their time to leave comments/blogs that will help others from falling for scams and other similar things. For the record, our form asked for $95 and it’s from Annual Minutes Compliance Board, Business Processing Division, P.O. Box 38130, Los Angeles CA 90038-0130

My corporation was dissolved years ago, but I just got one too. I was suspicious right away – Do not send any money to:
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Service Division
1843 Central Ave #168
Albany, NY 12205-4735
866-468-6619
I will also report it.

HAHAHAHAHAH WHAT A FUCKING SCAM . what do they think we are retarded?

Well, they’re up to $175 now. Just got off the phone with them (couldn’t believe I got a real person) to let them know I wouldn’t be falling for the scam (second letter I’ve received in a month) and to take my name off their mailing list.
Too bad the state isn’t doing anything about these guys…considering how long of a list of comments there are on here and how far back they date.

Thanks so much for all the input on this scam. The whole thing looked suspicious to me. When I googled the form and got no results, it looked even shadier. Then, I stumbled on this site. Thank you. God bless the internet and the knowledge sharing that goes on here.

Was told most addresses are sent back to UPS stores in every capital throughout the U.S. 1843 Central Albany, NY is a UPS Store

I just got one of these scam letters today. Thank you for the heads up.

When you first open up the letter, your first impression is that it looks legit. But then once you read deeper into the fine print, you realize all the Red Flags that are contained in the letter. I admit, whoever these guys are, they’re very good at MS Word and creating a template that looks official.
But what gave themselves away were things like:
1) Only having 10 days to pay a federal bill, which is odd b/c it’s usually 30 days
2) Having it sent to Temecula out of all places; the wine country of SoCal
3) Asking for the address of my executive office, which is confusing b/c they already sent it there, so why were they asking for it again
4) Not clearly explaining what Compliance Minutes actually are
5) Having a phone number that goes straight into an answer machine w/o even ringing
6) Including a second page that looked highly unprofessional in a font that looks like it was made in the 80’s.
Thank God for Google and the ability to reference things like this. I hope that some of these tips help other people out, if it’s not too late.
BTW, mine was supposed to be sent to:
Compliance Annual Minutes Board
Business Processing Division
P.O. Box 9011
Temecula, CA 92589

I got scammed in 2006 and 2007 by California Corporate Compliance.
I became suspicious when I received a similar demand for $195 a few weeks later from another company which I did not pay.
Board Of Business Compliance
Annual Minutes Division
P.O. Box 93069
Los Angeles, CA 90093-0069
I reported both to the Better Business Bureau. I’m claiming refunds plus stress, inconvenience etc. I don’t believe I will get the money back, but I do believe if everyone who receives these letters complains that eventually something will be done. I’m also joining any class actions I can find.
Thanks!

I received an Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement notice requesting payment of $125 from Corporation Compliance Recorded on Oct 21.
On searching the CA Secretary of State site for form CCR-34D – no such form existed.
Thank you for your site, as it has confirmed the scam.

I just got this “New York Annual Minutes Compliance” letter with some other REAL NY State Tax forms and I almost went for it. But it just didn’t seem right. Something about it wasn’t right. I’ve had a business for 10 years and never heard of it. Never had to pay it, I googled, I saw and I thank you…..
New York Corporate Compliance
Business Service Division
1843 Central Ave #168
Albany, NY 12205-4735
866-468-6619

My friend and I both received the same letter from this company bc we recently converted our llc to a corporation. I wrote a check for $150 and filled out the form but realized that all the questions that were the same form that I filled out on the secretary of state website. After I found this website, I immediately called my friend who told me it was a scam.

I just got a Annual Minutes Compliance Board letter requesting $95.00 the address is PO Box 38130 Los Angeles CA 90038. Thanks for the info on this scam.

RE: CA Corporate Compliance at Freeport Blvd in Sacramento. I fell for this scam in 2006 and in 2007. I just realized this when I received another letter several weeks ago and became more suspicious. I had made a copy of the letter when I mailed the check this year and read it closer. I have not received any services for this fee. I would like to get my $250 back. I will continue to call and leave messages. I have read every entry on this site to gather as much information as possible. Does anyone else have any further information or contact numbers besides the 866-833-4085?

I believe this is a government agency… this has been going on for years.. million of people have been affected, and millions of complaints. And the government hasn’t did anything… because its the government.

Thank you for this postng.
The document that I received from ‘FBNRC’ used the same logic as those described here to coax you into sending money to them because your Fictitious Business Name Renewal was pending.
They are calling themselves the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center, using the mailing address: 2740 Fulton Ave #203, Sacramento CA. (916) 480-9880 (No response/message when called).
Beware

As a new coporation I question everything related to it. I received a letter from the CCR and thought it strange to not have a phone number. I called information to get a # to check to see if this was for real and some man answered the # they gave me saying I had the wrong #. I then found this site on the web. Thank You for all of you who have posted here, I would have felt really stupid to lose $125 or the $175 if not done by the due date. Thanks Everyone!!

My wife just got screwed…..Can someone help us to recover our money?

Our company’s Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement Form came from the Annual Business Compliance Board, PO Box 38130, Los Angeles, CA 90038-0130. No telephone number was on the form, so I googled.
It is clear the scam is wide and has been around at least a few years and uses many similar names, office locations, etc.
Anyone have a way to get this on the news? There are those news shows that find scammers and actually bust them on TV. Apparently, nothing else has worked to put them out of buisness to this point…
Thanks for the blog – very helpful!

Update Youth and Seniors Outreach Services minutes.
640 Caesar Chavez
San Francisco, California, 94124
415-647-9767

I just received a letter from Corporation compliance Recorder requesting the amount of $150.00 for the anual minutes stamp, enable me to be a share holder and get my minute stamp.
I beleive that this is a fraud and I would like to reported since I am in business, owning a corporation in California.

I received one of these letters and googled and found your site. Thanks for saving me the $125

We are in NYC received two notifications from these scammers and intend exposing them on national tv. Warning to all read the disclaimer found beneath NAME and MAILING ADDRESS; ‘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 ETC…’
Goodluck!

Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center sent me a notice on Jan 24th saying it had to be filed with the county by Jan 28th.
Looks like they depend on the urgency of the dates to panic you into acting without much scrutiny.
I got out my pen to file out the form, then I noticed that the check needed to be filled out to FBNRC? and then that the return address was in Sacramento (not in the county where I’m registered). I took me a couple of more minutes of scrutiny before I found the disclaimer, without which it would have to be called mail fraud.
What b4st4rds.
Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center
2470 Fulton Ave. Suite 203
Sacramento, CA 95821
Phone 916-480-9880

I received the letter Corporation Compliance Recorder Los Angeles for $150.
I checked the Web just before writing the check.
Thanks for the information.

I just received one also. I remembered this scam from it making the news last year. (I had also received something similar last year).
I think I will send them a nice F you letter in response. This letter’s response address is PO box 9011, Temecula 92589
I hope this helps others.

I was almost a victim of this letter TWICE. A “Corporation Compliance Board” letter was sent to me with a request for $95 fee last month and I sent it in. Today I received another letter from “Corporation Compliance Recorder” with almost the exact same logo and letter requesting $150 fee for the exact same thing. This got me suspicious, especially when this letter now has no telephone contact info. I Googled this organization and I came to several sites linking this organization with scams. Now that I have sent in my $95 to this fraudulent organization, what recourse do I or any of us have? Is it even worth it to pursue this legally? I see comments on this site dating back to 2005 so apparently this organization is still in business and further scamming others. Why hasn’t it been stopped after SO MANY fraudulent transactions?

Received one from corporation compliance recorder (PO box 66186 LA CA 90066) on 2/5/2008.
Surprised to see the posts from 2005. Why such acts could last so long? Why can’t the government do something?

Received one from corporation compliance recorder (PO box 66186 LA CA 90066) on 1/21/2008
this is a long time scam! wow- i guess just keep changing the PO Box keeps the gov guessing…

We got two of these scam compliance letters. One from Corporate Compliance Filings (from Sacramento) and one from Compliance Services in Studio City. Since we are a small film production company that used Legal Zoom to set up our company, I almost got hooked in. When I got two from different places, I realized something was wrong. Sometimes procrastination is a good thing. I had the first one in a pile to discuss with our accountant and then when the second one came from a different company and I read all the fine print, I thought it looked “wrong” and googled “Annual Minues” and wound up on this site. I can’t believe the government hasn’t done something about this. It’s obviously been going on for years!

They almost got me too. This is the addy I got also: PO box 66186 LA CA 90066. I am going to go look. I live 20 minutes from that postal zip.

I just recieved another one today. That makes 3 within the past 3 weeks. hmmm…. Isn’t there something we can do??

Well, we received our fourth one yesterday. This one from Compliance Services, P.O. Box 1265, Studio City, CA. I “almost” fell for it the first time (from another company), but when I read it more carefully, I realized it was a SCAM. They got their letter back, without my company’s name & address, but with “comments” from me. As will this one… It’s a shame.

I formed a Corporation in California on 12-31-2007. I received the Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement from the Corporation Compliance Recorder on 02-05-2008. I made a check for $150.00 and sent it the next day in order to avoid a penalty of $25.00. In a few days, I called my accountant and asked him, which category I should place this new expense as. He said that there was no governmental agency known as CCR. It was basically a scam. He told me to trash it. I told him that I had sent the check to them. He told me to do a stop payment on my check. I called my bank right away and was lucky that the CCR had not cashed it. I was able to do a stop payment on my check. My accountant said that there will be a lot of scams I would be receiving in future and just to be careful who I wrote a check to. I asked my sister, since she had formed an LLC couple of years ago. She has been receiving the mail from the CCR from 2004. She has been careful not to send any money to them. This scam is very wide spread. I filed a complaint with my local police dept. The Police said that they had not heard about them. This site has been very informative. It’s a total surprise that these scammers have been in business for a very long time. They should be stopped. I will send a copy of my experience to the US Congressman in the area. May be it’s the election year and he will be energized to do something about this. I hope my experience will help others.

The scam has spread to New York. They want $125. Also, by filling out their fake form you are risking some form of identity theft. There will be more and more of this stuff coming down the pike. Another scam is an outfit pressuring you to buy all the necessary labor department posters, or suffer dire consequences. Instead of paying their crazy price, you can get the posters free from the different agencies.

My company was incorporated in 1987. I’m very sorry to say that I have been sending payments to The Corporate Compliance Center since 1999 at least. I feel very stupid and I only looked into them because I called the number on the form that they sent and could never reach a live voice. I also went to their website and I was unable to contact them. I had to fill out a form and have them contact me. It just all seemed fishy. So I started looking around and found the California Business Law Blog of Jonas Grant. So I am contacting the Justice Dept because I am so annoyed at letting myself be taken for all these years.

They are still at it. I received a notice last year and threw it out, but got another sent to home address instead of business address. This one is called:
Corporate Compliance Center
2740 Fulton Ave, Ste 203
Sacramento, Ca 95821-5183
Well they wanted $120.00 to do their so called filing. So I thought I would let them do some filing of their own. I crossed out all our info on the form, tore it in half and stuck it in their envelope. Since the envelope needed a stamp, I didnt put one on it instead, I wrote their address on the return address box, Now lets see if they get the message.
All we are required to file is the annual statement of information with the State of California FTB which a fee of $25.00 is required. Thats it.
Here is a website I came across that has info on filing your annual minutes by an California attorney. Found it very helpful and informative.
http://www.bizadvisor.com/CorporateRecords.htm
Maybe if everyone starts to tear up their junk mail and send it back to them they will stop trying to rip people off and get the message. This seems to be on-going over the years.

We just received a letter in the mail from ‘FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME RENEWAL CENTER” ADDRESS: 2740 Fulton Ave., Sacramento, CA 95821 re: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME EXPIRATION NOTICE. Asking for payment of $125.00 made payable to FBNRC.
My wife smelled a stink, did the research, found your site and posted comments. Thanks. We will be taking this up with Sacramento and Postal Fraud next week.

They almost got me with this scam, something in my gut didnt feel right. I then saw the email address to contact them, which confirmed it was a scam complaincecorp@roadrunner.com……
ROADRUNNER?,……freakin lowlifes
BTW I got the letter with the address Compliance Services, PO BOX 1265, STudio City CA 91614
People follow your gut, most of the time its right.

I received one in my home in New York. The only reason I noticed it was because I don’t own a business, however the letter was addressed to a phony corporation at my home address. I was worried someone was using my address for some sort of scam.
The return address on mine is:
Annual Minutes Disclosure Services
Business Processing Division
911 Central Ave #134
Albany, NY 12206
866-390-1176
Thanks to everyone for posting their comments.

We’ve got some of these letters too lately.
Upon some digging I’ve found some more information and some names, now if these are one and the same (I doubt it) is unclear at this time. But here are some links for you (these are based on a CALIF letter we got)
THOMAS H LITCHFIELD
(a 51 yr old THOMAS HOMER LITCHFIELD)
Business Associations:
RENEWAL SERVICES, INC
NATURAL WELLNESS NUTRACEUTICALS, INC
MAIL MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC
COMPLIANCE FILINGS, INC
http://myfloridalegal.com/RenewalComplaint.pdf
http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/corpdata/ShowAllList?QueryCorpNumber=C2675732
No names:
http://necal.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=67&bbb=1156&firm=47002733
http://necal.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=67&bbb=1156&firm=37001228
http://necal.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=67&bbb=1156&firm=47002020
A SUSPENDED ONE:
http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/corpdata/ShowAllList?QueryCorpNumber=C2044458
So based on this findings it would appear that even when there IS action taken against these people they still continue to act under new business or individual names. The scope of this scam is at the level should attract the attention of national media. Take the $100-$125 times even 25% of the mentioned 40.000 envelopes above that gives you an idea of how much ONE batch of this scam might bring in. It is also a across the state borders activity whereby it is a Federal issue.
Blog owner please check links and my email IS legit and working despite it might look odd 🙂

Just received a similar letter from
CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SERVICES
BUSINESS DIVISION
3308 El Camino Avenue, Suite 300-609
Sacramento, CA 95821
They asked for an annual fee of $150.00, payable within 15 days!
After reading it I thought we never had to pay in the past, so I started a search on the Internet and found this site.

Just got one in New York asking for $150:
Annual Minutes Disclosure Services
Business Processing Division
911 Central Ave #134
Albany, NY 12206
(866) 390-1176

My wife got one of these from an office in Salem, OR from ABN Renewal Service. It actually came back in Dec ’07. It was for Renewal of her Assumed Business Name for the State of OR. She was filling out the check and asked me if $100.00 was a little high. I asked what we paid 2 yrs ago and she couldn’t recall. I looked it up online only to discover that the fee’s were $50.00 not $100. I looked at the form she was filliing out and it wasn’t a government form at all, but this mock up form from a Private business. What a Rip.

We received a letter from “Compliance Services” in Studio City CA. It contained an official looking form for “Annual Minutes Requirement Statement”. It said that we would be in violation of some state corporation code if we didn’t send them $100 along with the form. It seemed fishy, so I goggled them and found this.

i am so angry at these people its not even funny. i have been scamed once for $95, once for $150, and the third time i cought on to their scam. this is my first business and i was not aware of this, but if i find u guys i will leave u disfigured, u can count on that, u bastards. what goes around comes around u losers. NOTICE TO ALL, STATE SECRETARY ALLWAYS CHARGES ****$25.00*******

Thanks for this info. I just got a form from the California Compliance Recorder, too. I was worried at first about the info & money they were asking for, but it looked like a scam b/c of the P.O. Box & not being a gov’t office. So I googled them & found this thread confirming my suspicions. Thanks for having this info online & saving me $150.

My partners and I just incorporated our non-profit organization back in January and paid about $35 to the CA Secretary of State. When we received the letter from “CORPORATION COMPLIANCE RECORDER” requesting $150 – $175 we just didn’t get it. I have had a corporation before and have never received such a request. Anyway, I googled this entity and found out that this is indeed a scam. It is really sad that people go through such lengths to deceive others.

Why in hell hasn’t the State of California gotten after these clowns?? Too busy busting cigar smokers I guess.
I damned near fell for it until I googled their name to see if they had an on line interactive form, and this page came up.
Thanks for at least getting the word out.

I got the letter from Corporation Compliance Recorder asking to pay $175. I am in California. The last date was fast approaching so I was just about to pay the amount when I decided to google to find more information as something did not look right. And sure it was a scam and came across this website. I think companies like this should be closed and the people concerned punished and put behind bars.

There is a group with an Albany NY address now doing mailings in New York as well. They are mailing an official looking request citing corporations code section 624 re: books and records asking for the officers and other corporate information with an annual fee of $125. I am going to contact the Attorney Generals office regarding this.

The scam has spread to New York. They want $125. The company name is New York Corporate Compliance, Business Services Division 1843 Central Ave. #168 Albany, NY 12205 (866) 468-6619 I wonder how many people fall for this scam. The papers look official. Am thankful I found this site after doing a google search.

We got this letter, too, and almost paid the $125. Your blog made us look again at the fine print, which tipped us off.
Look also for a scam that tells you that you have to purchase labor posters (wages, discrimination, etc) from a certain company or face huge fines. You can get the posters free from the gov’t; you don’t have to pay for them.

I can’t thank the internet enough! I decided to do a quick check on the corporation name and id# which led me to your page.
125 thank you’s!

Thank you for starting this. I, too, am from CNY and received the mailing from Albany. They were only allowing 14 days for payment to be submitted – which was what made me look closer. Perhaps we should all call frequently and/or rewrite….this has been going on for nearly 3 years???

Thank you so much for posting this information. I also did a google search and found this page. I was suspicious as it said it was an annual payment requirement but found I had never sent one in. I now know that after reading the print at the bottom of the page, it stated “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.” The annual fee of $125 was to be sent to New York Corporate Compliance Business Division, 1843 Central Ave #168, Albany, NY 12205-4735. I appreciate that you helped me not be scammed!

Same here. I am suspicious of the statement because I know that New York State only requires a bi-ennual statement. How the hell is it legal for these people to mislead-cheat the small business owners like this?

I received one of these ridiculous letters at the end of March. My corporation is 13 years old and I’ve never had to file one of these. So I was immediately suspicious. I also keep up with the changes to NYS corporation law. The need for the $ 125 within in 10 days is not typical of NYS. The State usually gives you a couple of months advance warning and at least 30 days to pay. I set this aside and then did some googling to find this site. I have not and will not pay this. The address is phony:
New York Corporation Compliance
Business Services Division
1843 Central Avenue # 168
Albany, New York 12205
866-468-6619
You bet I am turning these crooks in!

Wow! What a Scam, glad I looked for forms from calif business gov. no such number! Then I looked for Corporation Compliance Recorder and this web site came up. Their return envelope had P.O. Box 66186 Los Angeles, Ca 90066. I was ready to send a check and all our addresses. Thanks so much for posting this!

If I had not have access to the internet, I would probably have sent the $150 ($175 after May 7) that was asked for in the letter I received today.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this. I will share this information with my local community, myspace and ANY other public place I can think about. When this kind of stuff happens I do go WAY OUT OF MY WAY to make life hell for these SCUMBAGS.

A client, small inactive corporation, just forwarded the New York Corporate Compliance notice to me. She was ready to pay the $125. It didn’t smell right to me, so I googled it, and sure enough came up with your site. I also called New York State. They know about it and told me to alert everyone to this scam.

I just received an Annual Minutes diclosure Statement , Compliance Division for the following address:
Compliance Division
Corporate Compliance Filing
Minutes Division
9175 Kiefer Bl. # 336
Sacramento, Ca 95826
Boy they sure try to make itlook official . I have also contact the State of California.

Thanks to this website to comfirm that Corporation Compliance Recorder is a scam. We received the same mail yesterday.

Thank you. I got the letter as well and of course it looks weird to pay $125 for something I was never required to do in 25 years. But I wanted to be sure in case they were some changes and found your website. Thanks…

thanks so much. im so glad i googled this at the last minute. you saved me $125.

Thank you for this postings It looks like people have been receiving this latter since 2005. Well, I just got it in my mail. $175.00.
Ventura County, California.
How come they can’t get arrested?

Well, count me in as one who almost wrote the check! I received mine in CA asking for $150.00 and $175.00 after the deadline. Again, thank goodness your site came up in a Google search!

Unfortunately, this scam has been going on here in New York for at least the last couple of years. I received a notice entitled “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” and farther down that actually says “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” “You are under no obligation to make any payments on account of this offer unless you accept this offer”.
I think that’s how they get away with doing this year after year. The fine print lets them off the hook!

It is worthwhile to read these forms thoroughly. I have received one posing to be from a NY state agency. Towards the bottom of the form it says “This product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government Agency”. That actually tells you all you need to know. I didn’t see it until I went to this page to read up about this. So thank you for raising awareness.

Same thing here – just received the form from Board of Business Compliance, located at Business Processing Division, P.O. Box 93069, Los Angeles, CA, 90093-0069
They are asking for Annual Minutes of the Meeting of Shareholders and Directors, Disclosure statement and for the FEE $125.00
NICE!
Thanks to all of you guys who posted this warning about that scam!

I guess this scam made it to NY because I received this letter today and for I few minutes was thinking evil things about my state until I realized the scam. I hope everyone gets this message

Thank you for this useful information. After re-reading the official-looking letter, the fine print stating that they are not a government agency, etc. brought the scam into perspective.

I just received a similar letter from State Corporate Compliance Annual Corp. Minutes Compliance Filing, in the state of Texas. I became suspicious when there was no contact number on the “official” form. They wanted $325 from me and it would increase to $375 after a certain date. If I would not have teken the time to do a little research, I would have been suckered in. This is a scam! On the letter it states that they have no affiliaction with the Texas Sec. of State. Even the seal was suspect. It said “The Great Seal” going around it. What does that mean? Thanks for all the blogs.

Our small business received this letter last week and it even fooled the owner. It was titled ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE STATEMENT but if you read further down, it references U.S.C 39 & 3001(d)and California B&P Code:17533.6: “This product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency…”. The letter was from Annual Minutes Compliance Board with a mailing address:
Annual Minutes Compliance Board
PO BOX 38130
Los Angeles, CA 90038-0130

Got one too thanks for saving me.
The control number on my form is
#101825
I noticed the copy at the top of the page is:
#101811
Not very far from that one huh?

Thank you for posting these useful information.
My office received 4 “Compliance Annual Minutes Board”, and I was about to fill out the forms and send the payments need to send to the address:
PO BOX 12012
Hemet, CA 92546
The fake toll free number is: 866-390-1176
THANK GOD! I GOOGLE IT AND FOUND OUT YOUR WEBSITE.
THANKS A LOT!

This mailer is also hitting California – we just got one today and I thought it looked suspicious so I did a quick google to see what I coudl find on compliance service and annual meeting and I am glad you guys posted this – I will notify the BBB.

we got three very offical looking letters from Annuel minutes disclosures, compliance annual minutes board and board of business compliance, annual minutes divison. They came at different times during the last thirty days, but looked very simular. Thank goodness their greed made me suspect. one was for $125. the other two were for $150. WE almost bought into it. We googled the company and found many complaints. Imagine what these scam artist are doing with the information for those who were not aware. The government really need to get involved in this!

I received my letter yesterday from the Board of Business Compliance. TODAY I received one from Corporate Business Bureau. 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd #110-727 Los Angeles, CA 90045. Unbelievable! Thank you everyone for posting. I will be someone who doesn’t fall for this thanks to you.

Thank you for this site.I googled “Board of Business Compliance” and find this site. I almost sent the $125.00, but it didn’t look real. Thank you again. Marie

Thanks for this information. I received the Compliance Annual Minutes Board letter from the PO Box 66186 Los Angeles, CA and the PO Box 12012 Hemet, California scammers. They were both asking $150 with a $175 late payment fee! Thanks for letting us know. Darcy

Thanks for this information. I received a letter from the Compliance Annual Minute Board from PO Box 12012, Hemet, CA 92546, SCAMMER. I was asked for $150.00
Thanks for letting me know!
Sandra

Looks like the scam has made it to Arizona now. I read all the fine print and noticed it said “this product has not been approved or endorsed” also the words “unless you accept this offer” So I googled Board Of Business Compliance. They wanted $125.00 and it had a due date as well. They have a remit to address as 125 N 2nd St Suite 110-202, Phoenix 85004. I will call BBB and send it to our county attorneys office. Thanks for the postings!

I have received several mails from the last time I got scammed. The scam artists, claiming to be from Corporation Compliance Recorder, Minutes Disclosure Board and the list goes on. Now I have been writing “POSTMAN” return to sender on their envelopes and mailing it back to the scammers. This is what they disserve. I filed a compliant with the California State Attorney General, Local Police Department, U.S. Congressman in my area, nothing happened. It seems nothing can stop them. So we all have to be very careful who we write checks to. My bank told me that they can withdraw money from your account even though you have made a stop payment on your check. The final solution is to change your bank account number as soon as possible. Also to freeze your account immediately. I Hope this information is handy for the new LLC & Corporation owners.

Thank you for posting about this!! I handle the books for a small company and they just brought this in for me to look at today. I thought it looked suspicious and put in a few keywords from the document and found your site. Thanks to you I just saved an elderly couple $125! Thanks again!

I own a family restaurant in Hesperia, CA. and just received the ‘Annual Minutes Requirement Statement Directors and Shareholders’ notification: ‘Submit a check for $100.00 payable to Compliance Services and mail to:
Compliance Services
P.O. Box 1265
Studio City, Ca. 91614-0265
Something was a little wrong with this notification on the minute I opened the notice…very official envelope but in a lovely green and the inside ‘official’ form was printed on what looks like newsprint…
Thanks so much for your information!
Saved me!
Michael

just got one from Compliance Services, po box 1265 Studio City, CA 91614-0265. They only want $100.
Glad I got this info. thanks.

Thank you for this site!! I just got this today for my NY corporation. When I saw the envelope’s return address and seal, I thought to myself “great, what did I forget…” and then I opened it, and was confused. I wasn’t even sure what they wanted, aside from some info. It had a return address of “Albany, NY” and that confused me even more as that is where most of my legal/tax stuff for NY goes. I was just about to file this way for “tomorrow’s stuff to ask the lawyer”, but then I googled “Annual Minutes Disclosure Services” after noticing they want $150, and then I found this site. Thanks for the info!!! I’m going to print this page and staple it to what I received as a reminder of how there are people out there every day to scam you.
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ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE SERVICES
Business Processing Division
911 Central Avenue #134
Albany, NY 12206
Questions? Call (866) 390-1176.
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Scammers suck!!!

I received similar papers about the annual minutes that required me to pay $150, payable to California Corporate Services, mailed to Sacramento, CA. Suspicious about it because the letter is not printed on letterhead and no fine print on it, postage is presort standard (which is junk mail). The scam is similar to the letter format of Statement of Information (CA). NO phone numbers or web address on the letter. I am glad I googled it and find articles about this scam. Thank you for you all to post a comment, to help others to protect their business. Something we can do directly: A way to retaliate the scam? I sent them a “”check”” (of course it is not official) to let them know that we know that is a scam.

The scam has now reached Colorado. They are using “Colorado Corporate Compliance, Administrative Clerk Division” They are also using an address that is close to the actual Government facilities in Denver, so the address makes it look even more real. I have contacted the Colorado Sec. of State and they have informed me that they have been receiving calls on this since Friday, 8/8/08. The CO Sec of State has notified all appropriate Legal/Law agencies and recommends submitting the information to the Colorado Attorney Generals website: http://www.ago.state.co.us , click on the Comsumer Protection link.
The CO Sec of State also requested a copy of the letter be faxed to them, Attn: Michael Watkins (303) 869-4864. Lastly I notified the Colorado Dept of Revenue and they requested I fax a copy of the letter to them at (303) 866-4864
Be careful out there.

I just received one of these letters addressed to my s-corporation from “Colorado Corporate Compliance.” Thanks to you all for the information–especially Carole. I will certainly follow through with the contacts she provided. If you look at the return address on the envelope the mail is “presorted standard” mail and the zip code is 90052 which is Los Angeles. These people should be stopped immediately.

I received a form from Fictious Business Name Renewal Center using the same address others have noted. (2740 Fulton Ave. Suite 203 Sacramento,Ca. 95821 (916) 480-9880)Form has the disclaimer on the bottom that states; This is not a bill.This is a solicitation.You are under no obligation to pay the amount stated,unless you accept this offer.I left a message for them to call me back,not sure if they will. Any ideas what to say if they do would be appreciated. curranb@msn.com

I received a letter in Colorado today as well. Funny thing is I don’t see the part about it not being from the government however on the front it says street address of principal office of business in California. I am in Colorado and they addressed it for Colorado. Suckers… can’t even take the time to make sure the typing is correct for the state.

Yeah, I went as far as filling out the entire application until I read the small fine print at the bottom before I signed…”This product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency…” Definitely a Scam!!!! And the rest of you all confirmed it…Thanks!
The ph & address on this particular one is
PO Box 12012
Hemet, CA 92546
(866)390-1176
Someone’s gotta shut them down…

This scam is still alive and well. Two forms were received in our legal department recently. We are located in Florida and are a medium size public traded company. So glad I took the time to follow my instincts, read the entire document and then investigate.

I just received a letter in the mail today from Compliance Annual Minutes Board they are located at PO Box 6202 Murrieta, CA 92564
questions call 866.390.1176 recording

We received our letter here in Texas labeled “State Corporate Compliance Annual Corporate Minutes Compliance Filing” addressed to our non-profit. It states that the “annual minimum compliance fee” is 290.00, plus an administrative fee of $35.00, for a grand total of $325.00–if paid before 9/2/08, which will increase to $375.00 after that. As a retired attorney, I can tell you that this doc. looks VERY official, unless you scrutinize it. I am somewhat chagrined to say that we were just about to pay the thing until I started to research the issues–to double check that there’s no such filing requirement for non-profits, and then to quickly realize, of course, upon close inspection, what a complete scam this thing is. I also found your blog, which absolutely confirms the history of this scheme. I shudder to think how many organizations have fallen and will continue to fall into the hands of these people.

too bad the personal info on the scammer behind this is not posted on the net along with their pictures, then when ever they are out in public they could be subject to humilation ( 0r worse)

The scam has made its way to Colorado. I just got one in the mail and immediately sent it to my attorney. They were trying to get $150 but if you were late on sending in your payment, stating that the fee went up to $175. That in itself is fraud, whether or not they have the disclaimer (which took me a few minutes to find). Ask for money for a scam service, make it appear even more official by stating that there is a late fee.
I just wanted to add Colorado to your list.

The Colorado form doesn’t say anything about this being a Non-Governmental Agency. I’ve been in business for 10 years and this is the first time I received this. Also, the last line on the back is incomplete “All information disclosed by the addressed corporation listed on reverse page will remain” – That was another dead giveaway. Thanks for confirming my suspicion!!!!

Disclosure Statment
Board of Business Compliance
Annual Minutes Division
PO Box 93069
Los Angeles, CA 90093-0069
Look out!!!!!

Our company received form from:
Disclosure Statment
Board of Business Compliance
Annual Minutes Division
PO Box 93069
Los Angeles, CA 90093-0069
Reply By: NOW DUE Annual Fee: $125 with a file number
Hope they get shut down soon.

We have received this form or letter. I was very confused, because I just filed “Minutes of First Meeting” and the legal service I paid told me that I have only three forms to send. So I couldn’t figure out why I have to pay other $150 again. so I called them and left a message, but no one call me back. Then I feel it might be fraud. I am glad I find out this is Deceptive Letter.I saved money. Thank everyone.
The name: compliance Annual Minutes Board
The address: P.O. Box 6202,
Murrieta, CA 92564
The Phone: 866-390-1176
Please let everyone know about this letter.

Letter we received is from: Board of Business Compliance
Business Processing Division
PO BOX 93069
LA CA 90093-0069
We recieved the letter way back in July 2008, asking for $125 annual fee. I find the form inadequate, i also try to locate the tel no and google it, unfortunately cannot find any. Thanks for this website i was able to confirmed that this is a scam and we did not mail any payment.
Let us please find a way to STOP this!

Beware:
Board of Business Compliance
PO BOX 93069
Los Angeles, CA 90093
$125 annual fee
Corporate Compliance Center
2740 Fulton Ave,. Suite 203
Sacramento, CA 95821
(916) 480-9006
California Corporate Services
3308 El Camino Ave., #300-609
Sacramento, CA 95821
I received all 3 of these requests ranging from $100-150. Please beware of these scams and report!

I received this form last week and got very confused. First of all, my business is an LLC and I wasn’t sure why they wanted me to file corporate minutes. Plus, I have two LLCs and did not receive this form for my other one. Thirdly, I had never received this form and I’ve had my LLCs for two years. I was also trying to find a phone number to contact them. When I couldn’t, I googled it and found this website. Thank you so much for the information. You all saved me $125!

I received similar papers about the annual minutes that required me to pay $175, payable to California Corporate Filings, mailed to 9175 Kiefer Blvd. #336 Sacramento, CA. The scam is also similar to the letter format of Statement of Information (CA). NO phone numbers or web address on the letter here either.
Got suspicious when this showed up as I’ve done my research on what needs to be filed when.
These people need to be put out of business!

Thanks for the advise.
I Got one now requesting $125.
New York Corporate Compliance
Bussiness Services Division
Address: 1843 Central Ave. #168
Albany, NY 12205
no phone # or email.
Someone ! go get them …

Thank you for your so important information. As do you know two of small bussiness clients have received a similar letters from ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE SERVICES PROCESSING DIVISION 911, CENTRAL AVE #134 ALBANY, NY 12206, PHONE #(866)-390-1176.So as an Accountant,I read very carefully all information included on its instructions Form and Corporation Number related with my clients(Federal Employer Identification Number, EIN and NYS, etc.) but I couldn’t find it.So I explained to my clients that the FORM FOR ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE SERVICES WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TO DO PER LAW.So all people related with Business Activities or Corporations should be aware of that 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”.
They have to take their own decision about this issue.So I prefer you.Thank you to HinesSight for your help and information.
Rafael

I just got the second notice from Colorado Corporate Compliance. I (foolishly) paid $150 in October so when I got this notice, I started looking for a place to call. When looking it up, I found the above comments. Too bad I didn’t look at the details on the first notice!

Just wanted to say we are receiving this scam letter here in Brooklyn New York. The company name (and I use the word company loosly) is “Annual Minutes Disclosure Services” with an annual fee of $150. This form looks like it locks you in annually if you sign up, so the scam can compound over time for these guys to make quite a bit of money. There is also a number to call for questions 866-390-1176 although I can’t get an answer when I call. The form is very official looking but I did find in the fine print what you spoke of in your original blog regarding how this is not a government agency. How do these people sleep at night!!!

Just got “my” letter here in NYC today, so they are still out there! On instinct I decided to read the small print, and there is a disclaimer at the bottom stating: “This is a Solicitation For the order of Services and not a bil, invoice or statement of Account Due. No obligation to make any payments on account of this offer unless your accept this offer.” Each word begins with a capitol letter, by the way, but I got tired of hitting the shift key ‘-) I think this is the legal “escape” they use to avoid prosecution. Thank heavens I read that and decided to search them out…and found you post instead. YOU JUST SAVED ME $150! Thank you so much! (Also, I never remembered having to fill out this form or pay this company in the past)

My client has received a letter from:
Annual Minutes Disclosure Services
Business Processing Division
911 Central Avenue #134
Albany, NY 12206
and she has already paid $150 for compliance. Is this a fraud the same as in CA?

Is there any recourse to recover the $150 paid to this bogus company?
What about the Attorney General’s Office?

Donna, it sounds like the same scam. You can search these comments for “New York” (command “F”) and will find quite a few references to the same, or similar, letters.

Your blog has helped once again. When doing a search for the adresses, I found this posting. I will NOT be paying these fees for our clients. I’m sure they will appreciate saving $150 and $250!

HI, I have to recieved the annual minutes disclosure statement requesting me to send in $150.00 and I looked it up and found this site, thank you for saving me the money. I wanted to tell u about another scam out there, I got one titled annual review board statement of inforation officers list. I called the number on it, and it went to the actual review board and they told me that they did not send out these letter and that its a scam. I wish we could figure out a way to report these. thanks again….

Wow,
It’s been 4 years since this original post, but this just saved my butt.
Colorado Compliance Recorder is running this scam targeting my small denver/boulder area businesses… at least.
This mailed form was CR-34D. The legal wording was obviously misleading (after reading this post), the form asks for officer information and signatures, $150 fee, and a PO Box Denver.
Thanks!!!

Just to let you know they are using this address in California now:
Remit Office
Compliance Recorder
P.O. Box 91240
Los Angeles, California 90009-1240
Also they are calling it the CR-34D.

I just got taken for the scam at $150. I feel like such an idiot. I just incorporated last August and with all the forms i was filling out for the state of California this one slipped by, looked official and I paid the amount. Check cleared 7 days later. Please be aware with Compliance Annual Minutes Board Business Division PO BOX 6202 Murrieta CA 92564. I plan on waiting for the pick up at that PO box location.
Does anyone have any idea how i can get my money back? I was thinking small claims but there is no company information i can find. I have the bank the check was deposited. Any idea?

I am from Colorado and have a S Corporation I received the same Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement – I faxed it over to my attorney he approved it, I then cut a check for $150 I later found out from a friend of my wife and myself who also has a corporation that she had also received the same letter – she checked it out and found out there was a news article in the Colorado Business Journal that this is a FRAUD. Lucky enough I stopped payment on the check which was never cashed and found out that an investigation is going on and the PO Box has been shutdown which is probably where my check is now. So I consider myself lucky.

Thanks for the posting dated back from 2005. Today is Feb 24, 2009, and I have also received a same letter from “Office of The Compliance Recorder”, and asked for $150. The mailing address is:
Compliance Recorder
Remit Clerk Division
P.O. BOX 91240
Los Agles, CA 90009-1240
Can someone alert the police or FBI to find the scam articst behind this PO box?

Ditto. Thank goodness for the Internet! The small print made me dubious, this website confirmed my suspicions. Thanks for posting. Saved another potential victim from Colorado!

I was linked to this blog from another blog (http://www.bniembarcadero.com/scam-compliance-annual-minutes-board/) and thought I’d post the same here so that word gets out about this scam which is still running wild here in California these days.
I recently received a string of these deceptive letters ever since I recently established a new California corporation. I noticed the original post was dated 5/19/05; hard to believe, nearly 4 years later these scam artists are *still* operating! So far, I was a *potential* scammee (is there such a word?) of these scammers:
1. Office of the Compliance Recorder – P.O. Box 66186 Los Angeles, CA $150
2. Department of Business Minutes – P.O. Box 41227 Los Angeles, CA $125
3. Corporate Compliance Filings – 9175 Kiefer Blvd. #336 Sacramento, CA $175
4. Annual Review Board – 333 S. Grand Ave. 25th FL Los Angeles, CA $195
5. Compliance Annual Minutes Board – P.O. Box 6202 Murrieta, CA $150
6. State Bureau of Corporations – P.O. Box 22529 Sacramento, CA $225
Thanks to the internet and blog forums like these, I confirmed my suspicions about these letters and did not become a victim! This is great, I hope more people will do exactly what we all did and Googled to find the facts, share findings, and report to the appropriate authorities. It’s a good thing it looks like most Attorney General and Secretary of State websites are posting alerts on their websites about these types of scams.

I received this letter and noted that it was not from a government agency. Came on line to confirm it’s a fraud. Thanks to all who did this post.
Maria F.

Thank you very much for this website. I have received a letter from
Annual Minutes Disclosure Services
Business Processing Division
911 Central Avenue #134
Albany, NY 12206
This letter asked me to pay $150. I went online to search for Annual Minutes Disclosure Services on NY States Databases, and this company didn’t exist. I called the phone number 866-390-1176, and I left a message for them to stop doing this to people. Does anyone know how I can complain about this? Please advise. Thank you very much.

I just found out a place that we can complain:
http://www.bbb.org/
I already filed a complaint.

We received Annual Corporate Meeting Minutes from Annual Corporate Compliance in Indianapolis, IN. It didn’t ask for any money. It just said, “Please sign then insert into your corporate records book. Do not return.” It listed a meeting that was NOT held by our Board of Directors on April 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM. Very strange. It was postmarked 04/23/2009. Has anyone received this? Thank you.

I have received a similar letter from the ANNUAL MINUTES DISCLOSURE and was asking for $150. I thought it came from the government and almost issued the check.
It pays to search online and look for the validity of the people who sends you letters.

This is the second letter of this kind I have received within 6 months. This letter is postmarked April 2009. The return envelope and return address have a po box of 32369, Los Angeles, CA 90032. They are asking for $125 fee.

Hello,
I was interested in advertising on your site.
If you could please send me a quote it would be appreciated.
Thank You
Jason Mcleod

I see that the last post was in 2006, so I thought I would add that I have been working for my current employer for almost 3 years and each year I receive a different looking “compliance form” Their still out there with no phone number or physical address to contact. Their asking $125 and their address is now PO BOX 32369, Los Angeles, 90032

Gina, there’s lots of comments after 2006 (see the ones above). I think you needed to click on the “more” button at the bottom of the comments page. Only 50 or 100 comments are shown on each page.

We are a small company in Western PA and we received today a Disclorue Statement from the “Department of Annual Minutes Compliance” (DAMC). I read it over and told our accounting department not to pay it and after reading other postings I’m glad that I did. I have also filed a complaint with the US Postal Service. Any time I see a doc that has **AUTO** on it, I am leary of what is going to be the bottom line. Don’t fall for these people no matter how they alter their name, address or the amount they ask for. This one wanted $125.00. As you will notice there is no physical address or phone number associated with this scam.

Thanks for your help. I just got a mail from same people “DOBM” but P.O. Box 41617, Los Angeles, CA 90041. I was going to pay but I thought check it before I pay.
Thank you all.

We got this letter in Texas. I thought it seemed odd when I first looked at it, before reading the fine print. Thanks for the help. Their remit address on this letter: 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 110 #1019, Los Angeles, CA 90045. We googled it and see that it is a mailbox service.

Just received this bogus form in the mail.
What a bunch of crap.
Thanks for posting.

Received a letter such like you all, addressed from; OFFICE OF THE COMPLIANCE RECORDER, ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK DIVISION, PO BOX 66186, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90066. Thank you all for saving me $150. God Bless you for taking your time to post about such a scam.

Hi everyone,
I got a letter like the one describe it from the guy who built this page and the first catch was this are legal but when I inspected more the seal are not even a legal seal like that in all the american history, and yes! the letter has a legal look a like but people please I have to tell you something my grandfather told me when I was a kid “READ EVERYTHING” and that was I did, I read it and almost at the ending of the letter said “THIS PRODUCT OR SERVICE HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED OR ENDORSED BY ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY” so, what means this are not a legal document and if you my friend reading this ad you send your money already its time you call your bank and stop this transaction right away.
Are you send a money order? bad news, you just lost your money forever because you never read.
I’m sorry, I do not like to be rude but you have to read all the time every single document from the beginning to the ending.
For those who can stop the check remember this guys has to send you a letter inquiring for money just replay with a simple explanation letter;
” Your company letter with your service offer surprise our account department with your government look a like, reason we send you a check considering you was an official government request.
(Your company Name) are not interested in any of your services or offers, we are against of any kind of look a like scam an we already fill our complaint with the Office of the Attorney General of (your state) related with the government look a like of your business.
Proceed in the best way you consider; our attorney office has to take the correct actions.”
Be wise, be alert, open your eyes and read everything.
Lacy people has to pay the price.

3/15/10 Just received the same form from Comp. Services PO Box 1265 Studio City, Ca 91614 Asking for $125.00 DO BE SCAMMED!!!!

SCAM ! PROPERTY LIEN REMOVAL
Received Mar 23,2010, Notice to Property Owners who have recently purchased or refinanced (my address) who may have had a lien created by the Deed of Trust. Owner should have a certified copy of the Deed Of Reconveyance. Without it may lead to future title problems. I have recently refinanced.
This was a “Final Notice”, there was no previous notice, with a deadline of May 31, 2010. Processing Fee $145. payable to: Recording Compliance Board, Assessors ID No: 5086020012.
Return envelope: Recording Compliance Board, Title Reconveyance Dept. POBox 480501 Los Angeles, CA 90048.
Letter and envelopes pretty official looking, with 3 lines indicating what they will do.

I got a similar letter here in SoCal yesterday. Not gettin a DIME from me. Unfortunately, the usual victims here are the elderly: The people least able to afford having their money stolen by these dirtbags. I sent copies to the Los Angeles DA’s Office, and the Ca Dept Of Consumer Affairs to name two. Hope justice prevails.

I just received a very official letter from SoCal DBA 1142 S. Diamond Bar Blvd. #526, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 to renew my fictitious business name, even though it is not time for me to renew. I called LA County Registrar office at 800-201-8999 (automated, but within the fictitious name info…press 0, and got to talk to a very helpful staff). She said the letter is from a ‘third party company’ which is not related to the LA County Registrar. To renew, the Registrar office will send a postcard as a reminder every 5 years.
And it is only $18.
Do it yourself. Don’t pay $85, especially if you may end up with problem.
LA County Registrar’s website: lavote.net
Click left pane, “County Clerk Operations” you will find Fictitious Business Name info.
05/28/2010

I received two: one from Compliance Services, PO Box 1265, Studio City, CA 91614-0265, corpcompliancececa@corpsrvc.com AND one from Compliance Recorder, PO Box 91240, Los Angeles, CA 90009-1240, phone 888-325-1414 = bad dogs.

Looks like they’re still sending them out. There is a print on the bottom that states the service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency.
The return address is:
Corporate Compliance Service
2740 Fulton Ave STE 203
Sacramento, CA 95821-5183

I just received a similar notice-I’m in FL though and it looks like most postings are from CA. Same letter though… The payments are to go to a Tallahassee PO box. I googled CS FORM MIN-FL 10 because the form said it needed to be filled out but was not included in the packet and found this site. Thanks for the heads up!

They are now in New York operating out of 1843 Central Avenue # 168
Albany, New York 12205

It looks like most of these posts are a few years old. I just got something from Corporate Compliance Service at 2740 Fulton Ave Ste 203, which is obviously not an official document. My clue was the due date being less than two weeks after I received the notice, and the director listed being from 3 years ago.

Unbelieveable — we received the form on 12/20/2010 in Virginia. How are these people are still out there?

Thanks for the post. I own an answering service and some of these dishonest businesses worm their way into using our services and essentially hide behind the service. We try to weed out any business that looks fradulent before they forward but sometimes it can be difficult. Rest assured, any answering service (including ours) will disable service based on complaints.

Just got my letter. It is March 30 ,2011 so do the math talk about making some bank.The posts here go back to 2005! 7 years!!! Just do the math. Wow if it was not that I like to sleep at night, I guess I am in the wrong business. How does the government with all there policing of “Stuff” not crack down on this.They are “appearing to be an arm of the government. I am shocked that they are still doing this I got one last year too. Good thing I don’t believe any thing till it is proved to me. Shame on these underhanded people behind this fraud. I think I;ll call local news and see if a reporter has the time to expose this shamefulness.

Looks like they’re back. I recently got mail from them asking for $125. Hopefully no one falls for this scam.

I just got a letter of fictitious business name renewal. I have an accountant so she research it and came just like you guys. thanks for this site.

Five years later and they’re still in business. Apparently, government agencies and the Post Office are either impotent or uncaring.

I just found out that COMPLIANCE SERVICE, 400 CAPITAL CIRCLE SE, POSTAL MAIL BOX 32301, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, are hackers for your money.
The forms they sent to me look very much like government form, when they are a “SCAM”.
On March 7, 2012 I signed the forms paying a fee of $ 125.00 from my business account.
I am afraid they would continue deducting fees from my personal or business accounts.
They should be subjected to prosecution and prison.
G. Suarez, M. D