30 N Gould St, Sheridan WY: The Most Toxic Address for Your Wyoming LLC(And Why You Must Avoid It)
If you're planning to form a Wyoming LLC and the address 30 N Gould St, Sheridan, WY 82801 has been suggested to you - or you've already been assigned it - stop everything and read this first.
That address is currently the registered home of more than 200,000 companies worldwide, appears in federal fraud indictments, has been the subject of ICIJ (Pandora Papers) investigations, features weekly in scam reports by The Sheridan Press, and - most critically for you - sits on the automated blacklists of virtually every bank and payment processor in the US.
This is not conspiracy theory. It is the single most easily-detected "shared address" in all of Wyoming, and the number one cause of account rejection at Mercury, Relay, Bluevine, Wise Business and Stripe for non-resident LLC owners across the US, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.
This article explains what 30 N Gould St actually is, why every cheap provider gives you this address, what it costs you when banks reject your LLC, and what the clean alternative looks like.
What 30 N Gould St Actually Is
30 N Gould St sits in downtown Sheridan, a small Wyoming town with a population of roughly 18,000 people. The building itself is a modest 4,125 square foot storefront - smaller than a mid-sized suburban house.
Inside that single small building, according to public records from the Wyoming Secretary of State, are officially "based":
- 26 commercial registered agents operating out of the same door
- Approximately 300,000 LLCs - nearly 40% of all Wyoming LLCs (from a total of ~830,000)
- More than 40% of ALL new Wyoming incorporations between 2019 and 2024 (OpenCorporates data analysis by ICIJ)
Take a second to process those numbers. A 4,125 sq ft storefront is officially declared as the headquarters of nearly a quarter of every LLC in the entire state of Wyoming. It is mathematically impossible for these to represent real, operational businesses with physical presence.
The building is known locally as "Wyoming Corporate Office" and functions purely as a mail room. Each registered agent occupies a suite (letter or number) and receives legal mail on behalf of the thousands of LLCs housed there.
The most well-known suites at 30 N Gould St
| Suite | Operator | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Suite R | Registered Agents Inc | The largest - 53,267+ LLCs on its own, per Wyoming SoS records |
| Suite N | Northwest Registered Agent Service Inc | One of the best-known national brands |
| Suite T | AmeriTax Financial Services / Registered Agents Inc | Mailing address actually in Utah |
| Suite 100 | Formerly Resident Agents LLC | Older suite still visible on legacy filings |
| Suite 230 | Wyoming Corporate Headquarters LLC | Frequently resold by affiliates |
| Ste 28212 & others | Dozens of white-label operators | Used by affiliate marketers and small resellers |
The full official Wyoming commercial registered agents roster (July 2026) runs 63 pages - but a disproportionate share of all Wyoming LLC activity concentrates in this one building.
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Why EVERY Cheap Provider Gives You This Address
If you got your LLC from a provider that charged you $39, $49, $99, or even $199, there's a greater than 70% probability that your registration address is 30 N Gould St. This isn't accidental. It's the business model.
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White-label registered agent service. One or two providers at 30 N Gould St have engineered their service so any middleman - marketing agency, affiliate, dropshipping YouTuber, "Wyoming LLC guru" - can resell the same address under their own brand.
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Affiliate armies. Thousands of affiliate marketers worldwide seed referral links across YouTube, TikTok, X, Reddit, Instagram, free e-books and courses - all funnelling traffic to the same 3–4 registered agents at 30 N Gould.
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Race to the bottom. Because the provider's marginal cost is nearly zero (a mailbox), they can sell registered agent service for $49–$99/year and formation for $0 + state fees. If a service is free, you're the product - and here the product is your LLC, filed alongside 200,000 identical others.
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Zero due diligence. Wyoming law does not require the registered agent to know almost anything about their client. So your legitimate LLC ends up sharing a door with fake supplements, fraudulent dropshipping "brands", counterfeit Amazon listings and shell companies implicated in multi-million-dollar PPP fraud.
The result? When Mercury, Stripe, Wise, Chase or Relay runs a check on your address, their system doesn't see your LLC. It sees 30 N Gould St - and the system already knows exactly what that is.
Why Banks and Payment Processors Will Reject You
This is the most pressing practical problem, and the main reason this article exists. If you're a non-US resident and you want to use your Wyoming LLC for anything real - open a bank account, accept payments, sell online, run ads - the address 30 N Gould St will make your life miserable.
How the address burns you in KYC
Banks are required by the Patriot Act, KYC (Know Your Customer) and the BSA (Bank Secrecy Act) to verify that a business has a verifiable physical presence. The check happens at three levels:
USPS Delivery Point Validation
Every application runs through the USPS address database. If your address is flagged as CMRA (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency) or a high-volume operator address, the system sees it within seconds.
Internal blacklists
Mercury, Relay, Bluevine, Wise Business, Novo and Meow share data with KYC vendors like Alloy, Persona, Middesk and Socure. 30 N Gould St is on every one of these watch lists.
Utility bill request
When flagged, the bank asks for a utility bill in your company's name at the registered address. You have no real presence there, and the registered agents won't issue one. You give up or lose the account.
What happens with Stripe
Stripe is even more aggressive. Its automated risk model looks at five signals simultaneously:
- Foreign IP address (you)
- Non-US founder ID (you)
- Virtual or PO-box business address (30 N Gould St)
- Fresh LLC with no domain age
- No transaction history
If you have all five, Stripe will hold your funds within the first 90 days and will often permanently close the account. 30 N Gould St immediately flags signal #3 and tends to amplify the others. The same logic applies to Shopify Payments, PayPal Business, Amazon Seller Central, Walmart Marketplace and every major payment or marketplace ecosystem.
The real cost of rejection
- Frozen funds in hold for months until they release
- Wasted time re-applying with a new address (Certificate of Amendment at the state level, IRS Form 8822-B, and updates across every platform)
- Lost deals because you couldn't accept payment
- Permanent blacklisting at some providers - a single Stripe rejection often burns your EIN for future applications
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This won't directly affect you if you're running a clean business, but it's the context that explains why banks and payment processors are so aggressive about this address.
What's on the public record about 30 N Gould St
Federal fraud indictments. The ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) - the consortium behind the Pandora Papers - published extensive research on 30 N Gould St in 2025. Andrew Marnell was sentenced in a Los Angeles federal court in 2023 for bank fraud and money laundering, using shell companies registered there to extract nearly $9 million in PPP loans for hundreds of fictional employees.
Fictional officer names. According to a Wired Magazine report (2024), one of the registered agents at 30 N Gould St had a practice of listing fictional people as officers on corporate filings. Wired identified six fake names appearing as officers on 887 different companies at the same address.
Weekly scam reports. The Sheridan Press reports it receives dozens of complaints every week from victims of scams that traced back to 30 N Gould St. The Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce fields roughly five calls a week from buyers hunting down companies registered there to demand refunds.
Examples that have hit the local press
- A shoe seller called DeFlorance that never delivered orders and left customer Pam Jessen with 56 unanswered emails and 12 voicemails
- "Sweet Relief Glycogen Support" - a heavy Facebook ad campaign featuring a fake "Dr. Barbara O'Neill" personality, registered as "Nutrarize" at 30 N Gould St Ste 28212
- US Bath Store, a brand that presents itself as an NKBA member but whose address actually belongs to Wyoming Corporate Office LLC
- Countless fake beauty brands, moringa supplements, weight-loss "cures" and impersonation schemes
What this means for your LLC
Even if you run a 100% clean business - serious SaaS, serious consulting, legitimate dropshipping with real products - the algorithm doesn't distinguish you. It sees the address and buckets you with the scammers. And when a potential customer reverse-looks-up your address, the first two organic results will be the Sheridan Press scam article and the ICIJ investigation. Chargeback probability skyrockets.
What Wyoming Says About It - And Why That Won't Save You
The situation has become so severe that the Wyoming Attorney General's Office Consumer Protection Division has publicly asked citizens to report registered-agent problems at 307-777-8962 or 307-777-6397.
Wyoming State Senator and attorney Barry Crago (R-Buffalo) has stated publicly that there's "a need for new legislation to update policies and prevent scammers from using registered agents." However, the two competing interests - owner privacy versus investigative access - have made new legislation slow.
In February 2025, Governor Mark Gordon signed Senate File 56, which finally allows the Secretary of State to dissolve LLCs that have provided false or fraudulent information. In 2025 the SoS dissolved 3 LLCs from 30 N Gould St, along with 6 more from other similar addresses in Sheridan and Casper.
3 LLCs out of 300,000.
You can see the problem.
Wyoming law, as it stands today, does not protect your LLC from the consequences of sharing a spam address with 200,000+ others. That protection is on you - and on the provider you choose.
The Registered Agents at 30 N Gould St You Need to Recognize
If you see any of the following names listed as registered agent in a provider proposal - run. All of them operate at 30 N Gould St or at directly related addresses in the same practice:
Many of these rebrand regularly. The substance doesn't change: if your registration address ends up at 30 N Gould St, your problem is not solved by switching the registered agent's name. See our Wyoming registered agent service for the alternative.
The 60-Second Check: Are You Already on the Spam Address?
If you already have an active Wyoming LLC and you're not sure where you're registered, run these three checks right now:
Check 1 - Wyoming Secretary of State business search
Go to wyobiz.wyo.gov, search for your LLC name and look at two fields: Principal Address 1 and Registered Agent Physical Address 1. If either says "30 N Gould St" in any suite, you're in the spam building.
Check 2 - EIN address on file with the IRS
Your EIN is typically registered with the same address. Check the CP-575 letter you received when your EIN was issued.
Check 3 - Reverse address search
Google "30 N Gould St" site:sos.wyo.gov - you'll see the sheer volume of companies sharing the address.
If you find 30 N Gould St in any of these three places, you need to migrate. Immediately. Before you apply for a bank account. Before you try to activate Stripe. Before you send the address to a customer or a platform.
What WyomingExperts.com Does Differently
We've built a Wyoming LLC formation and management infrastructure serving more than 3,500 clients across 40+ countries. The number one reason our clients don't face the problems described in this article is simple:
We never, under any circumstances, give you the address 30 N Gould St.
Nor any of the other well-known Wyoming spam addresses (1309 Coffeen Ave, 1095 Sugar View Dr, 159 N Wolcott St in Casper - from which the Wyoming SoS has already started dissolving fraudulent entities).
A clean, private address
A real Wyoming address, not a mass-mailing depot shared with 26 other providers. It doesn't appear on affiliate sites, in rosters of 200,000 LLCs, or on KYC blacklists - so DPV/CMRA checks come back with no red flags.
A registered agent with a real office
Your registered agent isn't juggling 53,000 LLCs. Mail arriving for your company is received, scanned and forwarded within 24–48 hours.
A full compliance stack
Wyoming formation, a real EIN from the IRS, Operating Agreement, ongoing Annual Report maintenance, and the full playbook for Mercury, Relay, Wise Business and Stripe.
Multilingual support & cross-border structuring
We serve founders in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, German and French, and structure your entity to work with your local tax framework, not against it.
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The Bottom Line
If you're serious about your business, your LLC's address is not a detail. It's the first piece of data every bank, every payment processor, every platform and every customer running due diligence sees about you.
30 N Gould St, Sheridan, WY 82801 is burned as an address. It's burned by:
- Its system architecture (mass-mailing model)
- The affiliate marketers who spread it worldwide
- The scammers who exploited it
- The journalists who exposed it (Sheridan Press, ICIJ, Wired)
- The KYC vendors who blacklisted it
- The payment processors that auto-reject it
None of those conditions is going to reverse anytime soon, and none of them fixes itself if you just wait. Your only real protection is to never use this address, from day one.
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