Beware of Corporate Records Service Scam

You may have recently received a letter from Corporate Records Service, soliciting for funds under the guise of providing a service for the recording of annual company minutes. They are asking that company shareholders, directors, and officers, submit their Annual Minutes Records, along with a check for $125.00, made payable to the Corporate Records Service, in order for them to, “satisfy the annual minutes requirements for your corporation.” (No later than January 30, 2013.)

This is a scam! It is not a requirement for you to submit your recorded minutes OR a payment to this company.

While you are required, under Florida law, to keep annual meeting minutes, you are not required to submit them or hire a company to prepare them for you. You may engage an attorney to prepare them, prepare them yourself, or use a company such as Corporate Records Service to prepare them.

If you receive, or have received, a notice from the Corporate Records Service, DO NOT be fooled into giving them information or sending a payment.  They try this each year when you are busy complying with tax items and hoping your will be tricked by their official looking notice.