Scammers have found a new way of bilking U.S. small business owners out of millions of dollars: posing as the government.
State of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, announced Thursday that he is suing two companies that have used the state’s online public records and registration requirements to scam more than 15,000 entrepreneurs out of a total of $1.2 million.
The companies have cleared $3.6 million nationally from the scam and have sent at least 210,784 letters to Washingtonians since March 2019, according to the lawsuit filed in King County Court.
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