Corporate formation companies will often offer as part of their services to operate an address or mailbox for companies they form, which will receive and forward mail, possibly even providing a telephone answering service and hosting a website. Sometimes this will extend to offering nominee directors.
Certain accommodation addresses, sometimes known as red-flag addresses, have become sufficiently infamous with the legal profession, regulators and law enforcement that they tend to trigger suspicion – lawyers may suggest a background check or even avoiding doing business with a person or entity that offers such an address. Red-flag addresses are found in a large number of jurisdictions – the authors won’t name those they regard as red-flags to avoid claims of defamation by the corporate formation companies at issue, but regularly advise clients when such an address comes up in a matter or transaction.