About Mark Jeftovic
I live in Toronto, Canada with my wife and daughter, I'm the founder and president of easyDNS.com - the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a libertarian and former Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).In my copious spare time I blog here about doing business on the internet, moderate the ValueTalk website and play guitar in The Parkdale Hookers, an indie power-pop group who releases all of our music under a creative commons license.
I can be emailed at markjr@myprivacy.ca (requires verification)
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Thursday, July 31. 2008
TM-Collection - The latest "Trademark Directory" scam outfit
This one came in via postal mail from Hungary, a pretty straightforward looking "invoice" for our trademark in something called the "TM-Collection - International Register of Trademarks".
I'm sure if one were to confront these companies they would tell you they are "offering a service" not trying to chump you with a fake looking invoice, but I contend that the latter is indeed the end-game behind all these. Why? Because when somebody is trying to sell you a service that you don't already own, use, subscribe to, etc, the order form is invariably accompanied by a sales letter. No sales letter = no sales pitch. If it just shows up looking like an invoice, its a scam.
I'm sure if one were to confront these companies they would tell you they are "offering a service" not trying to chump you with a fake looking invoice, but I contend that the latter is indeed the end-game behind all these. Why? Because when somebody is trying to sell you a service that you don't already own, use, subscribe to, etc, the order form is invariably accompanied by a sales letter. No sales letter = no sales pitch. If it just shows up looking like an invoice, its a scam.
