Filing a Fictitious Business Name requires publishing one's home and business addresses. An entire industry of direct-marketing vultures feeds on these listings.
I recently had to re-file my FBN because one of my addresses had changed. As a result I've received a dozen offers for all manner of junk. The junkmailers are listed below.
To be clear: I have no existing business relationship with any of these companies, and yet they send me flyers, advertisements, enticements, and assorted other unsolicited commercial crap.
Anyone considering doing business with the firms listed below should question how they will treat your contact information. These companies have already proved that they value marketing over privacy, by sending me unsolicited junk mail.
Fictitious Business Name Junk Mailers
The list was last updated on 2004-03-01 at 7:11 pm.
2003-08-04 Cardservice International po box 1911 Camarillo, CA 93011 www.startaccepting.com 1-800-566-0099 2003-08-06 Cardservice International www.cardserviceleaders.com 877-538-3377 2003-08-15 1-866-865-7062 Cardservice International po box 1911 Camarillo, CA 93011 www.increaseyoursalesnow.com 2003-09-04 Robert Chrin Waddell & Reed 2140 Jefferson Street, Suite 200 Napa, CA 94559 707-255-3733 fax 707-255-3642 2003-09-23 2003-10-08 2003-10-31 2003-11-05 American Express Business Gold Card Kerry D. Hatch EVP & General Manager American Express 2003-10-03 Robert Chrin Waddell & Reed 2140 Jefferson Street, Suite 200 Napa, CA 94559 707-255-3733 fax 707-255-3642 2003-10-15 Pitney Bowes Meter Marketing 430 New Karner Road Albany NY 12214-5376 2003-10-24 2004-02-04 Nextel Communications, Inc. PO Box 5550 Hauppauge, NY 11788 1-800-569-4071 2003-11-05 The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company 850 Cannon Drive Hurst, Texas 76054 www.comparemega.com 1-800-827-9990 2003-11-16 2004-01-02 2004-01-27 2004-02-28 J. Alan Berson Senior Vice President (and junk-mailer) Capital One P.O. Box 85546 Richmond, VA 23285-5546 www.getmycard.com 2003-11-20 2003-12-03 2004-01-02 Jeffrey D. Beck President (and junk-mailer) Advanta Platinum Card PO Box 4732 Syracuse, NY 13221-8970 1-800-571-8810 1-800-ADV-ANTA www.applytoday.com/mycard 2004-01-11 Viking Office Products (and Junk Mail) 1-800-421-1222 2004-01-31 Citibank CitiBusiness Card Kendall E. Stork, President and CEO (and junk-mailer) 1-800-248-8118 2004-02-04 Office Max Ryan T. Vero, Executive Vice President (and junk-mailer) 3605 Warrensville Center Rd. Shaker Heights, OH 44122 1-877-OFFICEMAX www.officemax.com