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by hyperhello 1002 days ago
I'm going to be brutally honest. I don't know if your business is fraudulent, but it looks fraudulent.

For one thing, your home page is full of little English errors. I'm not saying that makes it fraudulent, but I wouldn't trust you with my money.

Next thing: your HN post is unintelligible. You "advertise for other Stripe accounts and get them clients." What does this mean? You run ads?

Last: you're blaming Stripe and you want us to know the real face of Stripe. Who are you? The leader of this company? Did you run this statement by your team? You want to be between the customer and Stripe. You are not presenting a Stripe alternative I want.

It seems as though you made a Stripe epiphyte company and insisted that Stripe play by your rules. I don't know who's morally right here but you're not playing with power very well.

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We basically bring you new users by running ads, email marketing on your behalf without charging you any upfront fees

Example, you have a task management software and you are looking for web developers, we bring you those clients without any fees upfront and only charge you application fee (% of your sales) after clients we brought pays you

We usually do b2b sales with each connected account, so landing page does not play a big role in our sales

Going through Stripe's forbidden business list, sounds like you fall under:

> Sales of online traffic or engagement

And, imo, also this one:

> No value added services including sale or resale of a service without added benefit to the buyer

One thing that doesn't help is that you have a founder name on your about page, but I'm unable to find that person where I would expect. I also don't see your company registered as an LLC in Colorado.

I'm sorry, everything about this looks like a scam.

Our company is registered in Delaware, we do have remote-office in Colorado where I live It is not a scam, almost all startups uses Delaware incorporation to be able to raise money
Also of note, the address you list in Colorado does not have your name on the property.
I live there personally, I can provide any documents requested if Stripe needs
I'm inclined to believe you (as putting your name out, and having a random address is fine). But I'm used to seeing profiles for founders on a website. You have a name listed on there that I can find no payments or tech history for (I could just be terrible at searching). Normally there are other nuggets on the internet that would help provide credibility to your history/profile, which helps establish some trust.