Bogus Company Registration at my home address

[mc2fool]

(Not sure if this is the best board for this, happy for suggestions if not).

In the past two days I've received two items of post, including a letter from Companies House, relating to a limited company which has been incorporated and falsely registered with my home address last week. (The other letter was from https://countingup.com/ who I suspect look out for new company registrations and send them servicing offers.)

There is no such company at my address and I know for certain not only that the director doesn't live with me but doesn't live in any flat in the block, as I am a director of the residents' management company and it's a small block and I know all the residents personally.. And it can't be a simple wrong-address-chosen-from-a-dropdown-list error as the postcode is unique to our block.

So, I suspect something fraudulent is going on and have sent an email to CoHo, awaiting reply. However, in the interim I've discovered https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-a-company-using-your-personal-details-without-your-permission and so will be filling out an RP07 to dispute the registered office address, and also submitting the "suspicious company activity" form too.

So, I was wondering if anyone else has had any similar experience, either with a company being falsely registered at their address and/or going through the process with CoHo to get it changed.

(FWIW, the company has a Chinese name, the director is Chinese, and the declared Nature of Business is "Retail sale via stalls and markets of textiles, clothing and footwear".)

[UncleEbenezer]

(FWIW, the company has a Chinese name, the director is Chinese, and the declared Nature of Business is "Retail sale via stalls and markets of textiles, clothing and footwear".)

If it's a fraud, those details are likely to be just as reliable as the address supplied.

A few years back I had five coppers on my doorstep, insisting I was someone else they were evidently interested in. Can get scary if officialdom gets a wrong idea.