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.
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