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<p>Thank you for posting.</p>
<p>What's sad of course is that just about everybody who happens
upon this web page will be a person who just got scammed and is
now clicking around on the Internet to try to figure out who will
help them get their money back. And the web page will be no help
whatsoever toward their wish.</p>
<p>The vanishingly rare sequence of events is:</p>
<ul>
<li>would-be scam victim sees this web page,</li>
<li>would-be scam victim keeps the warning in mind thereafter,</li>
<li>scammer contacts would-be scam victim, and</li>
<li>would-be scam victim avoids getting scammed.</li>
</ul>
<p>I bet that this four-step sequence absolutely never actually
happens in real life.</p>
<p>Here is what I wrote yesterday to a client:</p>
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<p>You can see the two TSDR links [that I provided for the two
newly filed trademark applications]. I invite you to make a
browser bookmark for each of those links. A first reason that I
am telling you about the TSDR links is that this will permit you
to check the status of each trademark application at any hour of
the day or night.</p>
<p>But a second and more important reason that I am telling you
about the TSDR links is that anybody sitting at home in their
pajamas can click around and find these TSDR links. This means
that scammers will try to scam you, with communications that
look a little bit like real USPTO communications. They will
look up your phone number on the web and call you up and try to
scam you. Please do not fall for the scams. </p>
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<p>Again thank you for posting.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/9/2025 8:59 AM, Michael Tobias via
E-trademarks wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This consumer alert about scammers impersonating
PTO employees was issued by the Federal Trade Commission this
morning.
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