Florida’s Attorney General (and soon to be Governor) Charlie Crist has issued a consumer alert cautioning Florida business owners against variations of a scam that involves deceptive marketing of corporate minutes services. The scammers try to lure corporations into buying corporate minutes documents.

Click here to read the full text of the news release.

It’s likely this scam is occurring in other states as well. If you have a corporation or an LLC, you are required to maintain files that include corporate minutes (laws vary by state, of course) but you don’t have to buy them from an outside source. If you get pitched by one of these scammers (and their pitches often look extremely credible), check with your attorney or your state’s division of corporations to be sure of your particular status, then report the scam to your state’s attorney general.

Jackie