Watch your company’s back with a company tracker

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Company Credit ReportsNot only are company trackers great for monitoring your competition (we email you when they file something with Companies House), they’re pretty handy when it comes to protecting your own company from fraudulent activity.

How?

Unless your company is signed up for PROOF (this means that Companies House will stop accepting paper forms for your company), all it takes for someone to illegitimately file a document on your company’s behalf is to complete the relevant form and sign it.

Companies House accept documents “on good faith”, therefore if the form has been completed correctly, Companies House are likely to accept it. This means someone could appoint themselves as a director of your company, resign a current appointment or even request a dissolution.

If you set up a company tracker against your own company…

We will notify you whenever something is filed with Companies House. Now the majority of notifications will be about changes that you know about. But if someone does file something fraudulently, you’ll be notified quickly, giving you enough time to contact Companies House and make them aware of the situation.

See here for more information:

The Company Tracker

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Mathew Aitken

is Head of Content at at Made Simple Group. This entails overseeing Made Simple Group's blogs (five in all!) and any other content we happen to be producing. In his spare time Mathew is an avid film-goer, TV-watcher and Tottenham Hotspur-endurer.

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