[E-trademarks] Spoofed calls - USPTO trademark assistance unit

[Richard Straussman]

There is a guy who created a website to keep the phone scammers on the 
line for a while.  I forgot the name, but you just conference the line 
in and the bot takes over.

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On 3/7/2024 4:21 PM, Law Office via E-trademarks wrote:
> They would have said that they sleep at the uspto in washington. Where 
> they called from. :-)
>
> Sometimes I wish I could program a bot that keeps them on the phone 
> for hours. Or put a "free puppies" ad on craigslist with their real 
> phone number if I could find it. (That's admittedly not my idea but I 
> love it.)
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:18 PM Terry Carroll via E-trademarks 
> <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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>     Or at least where they sleep at night....
>
>
>     On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, Jessica R. Friedman via E-trademarks wrote:
>
>     >
>     > At the end, did you ask them how they sleep at night, knowing
>     that they are
>     > spending their days scamming people? That?s what I do when I get
>     calls from
>     > ?Google Quality Control.? They hang up pretty quickly.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Jessica R. Friedman
>     >
>     > Attorney at Law
>     >
>     > 300 East 59 Street, Ste. 2406
>     >
>     > New York, NY 10022
>     >
>     > Phone: 212-220-0900
>     >
>     > Cell: 917-647-1884
>     >
>     > E-mail: jrfriedman at litproplaw.com
>     >
>     > URL: www.literarypropertylaw.com
>     <http://www.literarypropertylaw.com>
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>     >
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>     > From: E-trademarks <e-trademarks-bounces at oppedahl-lists.com> on
>     behalf of
>     > Law Office via E-trademarks <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
>     > Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
>     > To: Carl Oppedahl <e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com>
>     > Cc: Law Office <mail at platz-ip.com>
>     > Subject: [E-trademarks] Spoofed calls - USPTO trademark
>     assistance unit
>     >
>     > Dear all,
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I just got a call from the Spoof Spammer, claiming to be from
>     the "trademark
>     > verification unit," and decided to engage a bit. This group
>     claimed that we
>     > had to pay the Section 8 & 15 fee so that our trademark is valid
>     for 14
>     > years. AND they take Visa and Mastercard and would have given us
>     a discount
>     > on that fee, only charging $95 now. They kindly walked me
>     through the USPTO
>     > website to point me to the fees and recited all kinds of
>     information from
>     > the application. None made much sense to me, but it was
>     cumbersome enough
>     > that it could work with inexperienced or pro se applicants.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Asking them questions about the process and what the fee was
>     for, and making
>     > them scramble was, admittedly, fun, and I figured I'd share it
>     with the
>     > group for those of you who want to share some more details with
>     their
>     > clients.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Kind regards,
>     >
>     > Oliver
>     >
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