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> Register a company I think that works everywhere, not just in India. I'm getting spam to my Estonian company's and my Russian sole proprietorship's email add

> Register a company I think that works everywhere, not just in India. I'm getting spam to my Estonian company's and my Russian sole proprietorship's email addresses at least every week.

andai 3y ago
Same, but it's all from India!
codetrotter 3y ago
Norway too. When you register a sole proprietorship in your name in Norway, you will soon get multiple other Norwegian companies contacting you. Some of them purport to help you “start your business”. They will charge you money and provide about zero value. They are not trying to help anyone at all, they are just looking to exploit inexperienced people. And the worst ones will use wording to make themselves seem like this is another required step in order to complete the creation of your company. All the while being very careful so that although the wording tricks other people they can still snake their way out of trouble by pointing to some part or the message they sent that somehow clears them of any way to get them fined or otherwise punished for actual fraud. This was already a problem years ago when I registered my own sole proprietorship. I am sure that today with the ease of generating convincing garbage using LLMs the problem is probably even greater.
SoftTalker 3y ago
Same in the US. Register a domain, and a few months before it expires you will get an official-looking invoice requesting payment to renew it. In small print somewhere it will disclose that it is a "solicition for services" and not an invoice. The tipoff should be that the renewal is about 10x the price of the original registration but I guess enough people are taken in that it's worth doing. Since they send these notices by mail, there will be a disclosure in it somewhere, otherwise it would be mail fraud which is a rather serious federal crime.

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> Register a company I think that works everywhere, not just in India. I'm getting spam to my Estonian company's and my Russian sole proprietorship's email add

by notpushkin 3y ago

> Register a company I think that works everywhere, not just in India. I'm getting spam to my Estonian company's and my Russian sole proprietorship's email addresses at least every week.

andai 3y ago
Same, but it's all from India!
codetrotter 3y ago
Norway too. When you register a sole proprietorship in your name in Norway, you will soon get multiple other Norwegian companies contacting you. Some of them purport to help you “start your business”. They will charge you money and provide about zero value. They are not trying to help anyone at all, they are just looking to exploit inexperienced people. And the worst ones will use wording to make themselves seem like this is another required step in order to complete the creation of your company. All the while being very careful so that although the wording tricks other people they can still snake their way out of trouble by pointing to some part or the message they sent that somehow clears them of any way to get them fined or otherwise punished for actual fraud. This was already a problem years ago when I registered my own sole proprietorship. I am sure that today with the ease of generating convincing garbage using LLMs the problem is probably even greater.
SoftTalker 3y ago
Same in the US. Register a domain, and a few months before it expires you will get an official-looking invoice requesting payment to renew it. In small print somewhere it will disclose that it is a "solicition for services" and not an invoice. The tipoff should be that the renewal is about 10x the price of the original registration but I guess enough people are taken in that it's worth doing. Since they send these notices by mail, there will be a disclosure in it somewhere, otherwise it would be mail fraud which is a rather serious federal crime.