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8/16/2024

  • Writer: Steve Peterson
    Steve Peterson
  • Aug 16, 2024
  • 1 min read

N. WISCONSIN - Thousands of Wisconsin businesses will receive refunds after being targeted by a business certificate scam.  This includes 20 Minocqua businesses, 15 Eagle River businesses at least 6 in Ashland and businesses in Hurley, Minocqua, Washburn, Butternut and Fifield.  Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said after an investigation, the DOJ made a judgement against two Florida-based companies and their owners in connection with the scam. The judgement requires that Centurion Filing Services LLC, also appearing as "WI Certificate Service" to pay over $3.5 million, including over $600,000 to refund businesses affected.  More than 7,000 businesses placed orders with the faulty company and will receive refunds.  The list of Wisconsin businesses that were victims of the scam is 71 pages long.

 
 
 

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