If so, you're one of a reported thousands of business owners across the country who have opened the same envelope, read the same threat, and wondered whether they were the only target.
You're not. And you're in the right place to do something about it.
Add your letter to the record How this worksOne letter to one business can look, to an investigator, like a private dispute between two parties — the kind of thing that doesn't rise to the level of a criminal matter on its own. But when the same person sends the same letter to thousands of businesses across the country, using the same method every time, that stops looking like a dispute and starts looking like a business model. Investigators and prosecutors take pattern and volume seriously, because it's evidence of something organized and repeated — not a one-time disagreement. That's the whole reason this page exists: one letter is easy to overlook. Thousands of the same letter, documented together, are not.
Similar letters have reportedly also been sent by other, separate senders, including some licensed firms. This page is currently focused on Vivek Shah specifically. If your letter came from someone else, note that when you write in.
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Submitting your information costs nothing, does not sign you up for anything, and will be kept confidential. It will be compiled, along with other businesses' information, into a report for law enforcement.
This page was put together by the owner of a small business in North Carolina who received one of these letters like you did. Rather than pay, he decided the better response was to make sure this pattern gets seen — by other affected businesses, and by the law enforcement agencies positioned to do something about it. This page is the result: a simple way for anyone else in the same position to be counted, at no cost and with no obligation.