Maine bureau starts fraud monitoring service
The Maine Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions is introducing an Online Corporate Fraud Monitoring service, the second state agency in the nation to do so.
Maine business owners and registered agents will be notified automatically by email of any action filed that involves their business, according to a press release from the Department of Secretary of State, of which the bureau is a division. The service is intended to prevent fraudulent filings by bogus entities.
Users signing up for the service will create an online profile that will keep track of the business entities they want monitored. Each entity listed will cost $35 annually.
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said there are nearly 80,000 registered entities in the state.
The state has contracted with NIC Inc., a Kansas company that specializes in website services for government entities, to launch the new website.
The press release said the online service was developed at no cost to Maine taxpayers and was created by the Maine Secretary of State, Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions, in partnership with the state's e-government portal provider, InforME. More information is at: https://www1.maine.gov/online/sos/cfm.
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