If you own or are part of a board of directors of a business of any size in the US, new regulatory filings are coming in to effect. By the end of the year you have to file what's called a "Beneficial Ownership Information Report" or #BOI / #BOIR with the US government agency, #FINCEN.
Filing the report costs nothing if you do it yourself, but there are pretty severe financial penalties for not doing it.
I've been getting notifications about it for about 48 hours that the deadline is fast approaching, and the #phishing #scammers are already jumping on this bandwagon.
This morning I got an email from the website boifilings[dot]co. The website and email claims to come from the "U.S Business Compliance Commission" which is...not a government agency, but a private company.
They do absolutely no validation on any information in the form they link to, other than the credit card number you enter to pay the $250 (!) they're asking you to pay for what is a free service.
Oh yeah, and they list a street address in their contact information, but a Google Street View of that address shows that it's the disused back door of a windowless warehouse or storage shed. You might call it the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of government agencies.
This may not be criminal, but it's still shady AF.
FINCEN has a FAQ about the process here: https://www.fincen.gov/boi-faqs
To sum up:
Named intentionally to sound like a government agency
Uses a logo on its email and webpage that makes it look like a US government agency
Wants to charge money for a service that is otherwise free
Does a terrible job at doing the service they are charging for
Business address corresponds to an unmarked, windowless storage warehouse back door
No guarantee that they won't just take the money and run
Brandt 
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