{"id":2861,"date":"2023-03-30T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/advertising-scams-with-mrbeast-and-cory-doctorow"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:55:51","slug":"advertising-scams-with-mrbeast-and-cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/advertising-scams-with-mrbeast-and-cory-doctorow\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising Scams With MrBeast and Cory Doctorow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly everyone who&#8217;s incorporated a business in the United States has been mailed an advertisement attempting to collect some form of fee in exchange for an official-sounding non-service. Going back to filing my first LLC, I&#8217;ve gotten letters that look official, trying to collect between $50 up to a few hundred dollars from the new company. These letters always walk the line of claiming to be a government agency, but they are ads. Local media in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania covered one of these&nbsp;business letter grifts back in 2020. The scammers know that a company has just been filed, the name of that company, and the address of that company from public records. That&#8217;s a lot of information to make specific creative. A letter to the registered address, using the company name, and the registered contact&#8217;s name to demand the purchase of an official-sounding certificate is as specific as it is deceptive. If you&#8217;re not bothered by scams targeting businesses, remember not every company is&nbsp;Johnson &amp; Johnson creating a new firm to avoid a judgment. Massive evil firms and others spinning up a labyrinth of LLCs for liability and tax mitigation aren&#8217;t falling for this. These scams are hitting mom &amp; pop restaurants, and the artist trying to collect a few thousand dollars a year without handing out a social security number. Online Ads Shenanigans The principles of being deceptive and specific underpinning a business letter extortion racket are easy to implement online. I&#8217;ve worked in advertising for over a decade; online&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/adverting-scams-with-mrbeat-and-cory-doctorow\/\">Advertising Scams With MrBeast and Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly everyone who&#8217;s incorporated a business in the United States has been mailed an advertisement attempting to collect some form of fee in exchange for an official-sounding non-service. Going back&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,29,33,30,35,32,13,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}