Verify before you pay anyone — even us

Every legitimate UK company has an official registration number at Companies House.

• Ask the provider for their registered company name and number.
• Look it up yourself on the official search service (linked on this page).
• Check the incorporation date, registered address, directors' names, and whether the company is active or struck off.
• Refused to give you the number, or told you there is no need to check? That is your first and clearest warning sign.

Try it now: search for exporya or the number 13585919 — Exporya Ltd appears with its full record.

Companies House authorises official agents to verify identities and file incorporations; the authorisation is called ACSP. It requires the agent to be supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes and legally accountable for what it files.

• Ask any agent directly: "Are you authorised? And by whom?"
• Compare the answer against their Companies House record and the official list of authorised agents on gov.uk.
• An agent who does not know what ACSP means has answered your question already.

Exporya is a Companies House authorised ACSP agent — ask us about our authorisation any time. We welcome the question.

UK formation firms must be supervised under the anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations, and HMRC publishes a public register of the businesses it supervises.

• Open the register from the official link on this page.
• Search by the firm's name or licence number.
• Not on the register, and no other documented supervisory body? Then it is handling your money and your documents with no legal oversight at all.

Exporya's HMRC registration number is XWML00000209713 — go and search for it yourself right now.

A "UK company" without a real UK address is just words on a website.

• Take the registered address from the Companies House record and compare it with the address published on their site.
• Find it on Google Maps: is it a real, existing office building, or an address that does not exist at all?

Our registered office: 1 Bedford Row, Chincilla Suite 105, London, England, WC1R 4BU — find it on the map and compare it with our official record. Visits are by appointment only.

A genuine apostille certificate is issued by a designated government authority in the country where the document was issued — in the UK, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

• UK apostille certificates can be checked through an official verification service on gov.uk.
• The Hague Conference (HCCH) website lists the authorities empowered to issue apostilles in each member state.
• Any "apostille" you cannot verify through these channels is a piece of paper with no legal value.

Every apostille we deliver is issued by the competent government authority of the country where the document was issued (in the UK, the FCDO), and you can verify it through that authority's official channels.

These signals recur in almost every fraud story:

• Prices dramatically below the market: whoever sells a "complete formation" at a quarter of the price is selling incomplete paperwork or nothing at all.
• Manufactured urgency of the "offer ends today" variety.
• A website with no published licence numbers you can verify.
• Most dangerous of all: a request to pay into a personal bank account or a wallet in an individual's name rather than the company's.
• Two of these signals together? Walk away, however tempting the offer.

The recurring pattern: "Two hours left on the discount — transfer to this personal account and we start immediately." That is not a deal. That is a scam.