ALBANY – Talk about being full of hot air!

A company called Steamin’ Weenie got busted by state Attorney General Letitia James after creating fake government websites that fleeced businesses for tens of thousands of dollars.

“Scam artists may think they are savvy, but breaking state laws and conning New Yorkers will get you into hot water with my office,” James said Wednesday.

The strange-named limited liability company and its owner, Thomas Romano, have agreed to $44,397 in penalties to escape the legal heat. The company’s misleading websites were also shut down by James’ office.

Romano allegedly overcharged businesses looking to file paperwork with the New York Department of State Division of Corporations by creating sites that mimicked its official government pages.

James said businesses tricked by the websites paid inflated prices for filing government documents, which the sausage-sounding scofflaw would then file on their behalf.

This included enticing wannabe entrepreneurs to fork over $135 for a certificate of incorporation from the department that normally goes for just $10.

Department of State officials tipped off James’ office about Steamin’ Weenie after encountering the websites it made with striking similarities to their own shop.

The sites created a logo and seal that looked like the real thing without disclosing to businesses the fact that Steamin’ Wienie – rather than public servants – was taking their money.

One website called itself the “Corporation Services Divison” while the official government page is handled by the department’s Division of Corporation.”

Romano, who could not be reached for immediate comment, even got an Albany area code for a phone number listed on the site while his own residence remained downstate.

But the company will no longer be allowed to use “any government logos, seals, or other similar iconography” to trick potential customers in the future per the deal with the state attorney general.

Romano will also have to “clearly and conspicuously disclose” to future customers that his company has no connection to the government – whether or not he goes by Steamin’ Weenie in the future.

“Impersonating the New York Department of State as a way of defrauding business owners out of their hard-earned money was not only deceptive, unfair, and misleading, it was illegal,” Secretary of State Robert Rodriguez said.