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American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) - Patent Registry Scams; Australian Patent Office - Warning!Unsolicited IP Services; Belgian Patent Office - Warning to inventors about fraudulent registration services, in (in Dutch) or (in French) (with link to a Decision of January 14, 2005 of a Belgian Appeal Court (Brussels, R.G. 2003/AR/2192 and 2003/AR/2356) (pdf) - in French)
A scam letter is a document, distributed electronically or otherwise, to a recipient misrepresenting the truth with the aim of gaining an advantage in a fraudulent manner. Origin [ edit ]
The letters, received by several residents in January, contain what looks like a $199 check that purports to be a “Registration Fee Voucher” from “County Deed Records.”
In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, [1] often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuits against public ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Here's are some tips from the Federal Trade Commission if you think you've been affected by a data breach, including the one involving Change Healthcare:. Get free credit reports from ...
According to Change Healthcare, letters notifying business customers of the breach started being sent out back in June but New Yorkers have been receiving them as recently as September and October.
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...