$4,000 USPTO IMPERSONATOR SPOOF CALL MINUTES AFTER APPLYING FOR A TRADEMARK – Did they find a way to hack the USPTO application submission portal?

Dear Client, be AWARE. Be CONFIDENT. It is WORTH it to be SURE. I’m talking TRADEMARKS.

Sorry Dr. Oleg. Your $66,100 loss will have to be addressed in the next article. This issue is too urgent to delay.

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Do NOT allow yourself to be intimidated.

Do NOT let the trademark scammers chill your desire to protect your intellectual property, to expand its rights in sound, appearance or meaning, to OWN your business name, slogan or logo.

Trademarks are an asset. They build wealth. They expand rights geographically. People usually will not argue when shown they are infringing on a pending or registered Federal or State trademark. They’ll change their business name when they see your trademark. Trademarks have credibility.

Read about phone call spoofing at https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/spoofing.

Nice short video too.

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We have a stunning CYBER SCAMMER first.

Scammer # 326 in our gallery of fraudsters – and counting. 221 have been allayed, somehow, some way. 105 to go.

On Wednesday, June 24 UNITED STATES PATENTS OFFICE created their domain name. See: https://www.whois.com/whois/unitedstatespatentsoffice.com.

Curiously, their new .COM web site, (not .GOV web site), rotors over immediately to the normal USPTO web site https://www.uspto.gov/.

Red flag? YES!

On Friday afternoon, June 26 our client filed a for a new $700 ITU Intent-to-Use trademark application at the USPTO, for 2 types of future products.

Within minutes our client received a SPOOF phone call. Caller ID said it was: PATENT&TRADEMARK @ 571-272-1000. See picture above.

If our client had thought fast and searched the phone #, they’d find 571-272-1000 really is the USPTO main phone #. That is the SPOOF. To fool the call recipient.

Then came the authoritative voice, seemingly from the USPTO. The woman who knew all about the new trademark just filed. She told our client they needed to do MORE.

$4,000 more for “Global Authority”.

Please see the client’s complaint she wrote to the USPTO on Friday, June 26:

Chris – below is what I filed LAST NIGHT JUNE 26^th, AT 4PM EST.

WHAT’S ALSO STRANGE THE TIME STAMP ON MY CALLER ID SAYS 12:18 PM (PST). THAT TIME IS BEFORE I FILED BUT TRUST…..THE CALL ARRIVED MINUTES FOLLOWING MY FILING.

Subject:

ALERT FRAUD CALLER – MY Serial number: 99908441

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT minutes AFTER I FILED AND PAID FOR MY TRADEMARK

an aggressive woman called me saying she was assigned my file and she will expedite it all i need to do is explain its usage (unfortunately I did)

She said I needed to file for services. I TOLD her I already paid $700 and I thought that covered goods and services.

She said, I only paid for the GOODS use. SO, SHE NEEDED MY PAYMENT INFORMATION.

She asked where I was going to sell the product and I said initially on-line, she said there are different prices for different outlets. It will cost me more if I intend to sell in retail stores/etc.

She said, after I paid to fully FILE my case, that in order to protect my TM globally it would be an additional $4,000 then she would grant me authority to use the TM next to the brand name

within 24 hours and she would send me confirmation of the call, payment and authorization to use the TM following the brand name.

But the more she talked over my questions I grew suspicious.

She ended by handing up on-me when I said – THIS IS A SCAM. YOU ARE A FRAUD.

CALLER ID DISPLAYED -PATENT & TRADEMARK

from – 571-272-1000

at 12:18 pm (PST)

on JUNE 26, 2026

Earlier today, I wrote the USPTO too:

USPTO, one of our clients, below, received a cyber scam email

from someone trying to impersonate the USPTO. Please see email she

received TODAY from a domain created at DYNABOT 2 DAYS AGO!

I have reason here to believe the scammers we are all battling

have found a way to hack the USPTO web site in REAL TIME. How else could

they have called her MINUTES after submitting her trademark application

YESTERDAY June 26? Our client’s trademark is TUCK-A-WAY (SN99908441).

However, I am at a loss to explain why the spammer spoof call was received

at 12:18pm PST, while the USPTO time stamp was 12:59pm PST. Client caught

this issue too. See below, please!

TIMELINE

1) Trademark filed at 12:59pm PST. (USING PST. Client lives in Palm Springs. I am in California.) See: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn99908441&docId=APP20260626155932&linkId=1#docIndex=0&page=1.

The oddity is the mismatched times.

Does anyone reading this have an explanation for the gap in submission time and a call receive before final payment? I have not been able to verify with the client of she lingered on the USPTO web site before paying for her 2-class trademark.

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We say criminal for FOUR reasons, 1) they do NOT do normal trademark

services AT ALL, 2) they use FAKE verification at verify.me to create FAKE

accounts for their victims so they can control access and communications

with the USPTO, 3) they list their own emails on every application to intercept

communications to the USPTO and control the trademark filing, 4) they

FORGE business owner signatures at the USPTO which is a criminal act

punishable with 2 years in jail and $10,000 fine EACH TIME. When the

USPTO discovers each of these fraudulently filed trademarks, they

unilaterally terminate them. No recourse for the business owner.

Just shame as the terminated trademark filing is public record forever.

This is an obvious scam because 1) USPTO Examining Attorneys takes 6-7 months to even get to a new trademark application, NOT MINUTES, NOT DAYS, 2) IF there is an issue, an Office Action is formally sent AND posted on the USPTO web site so it can be verified by the applicant and seen by the rest of the World, 3) the USPTO does NOT CALL people, 4) The USPTO web site ends in .GOV not .COM and 5) there is NOTHING

to VERIFY, as the premise of their email falsely claims.

Lastly, #6 trademarks are accomplished on a country-by-country basis, except the 27 countries in the EU and 17 countries in the African Union. There is NO SUCH thing as a “Global trademark”. The USPTO has no jurisdiction to grant trademark anywhere outside the USA. They are a part of the Department of Commerce. In our client’s case her only intention is to sell in the USA. Nowhere else. IF she was to sell elsewhere, that is for her to decide, her attorney, her consultant to advise what fits her business. The USPTO does not give advice, legal or marketing.

$4,000 for a Global trademark” is preposterous.

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Yes, there is more.

The next day, Saturday June 27,

our client received this 5:10am PST email:

From: james@unitedstatespatentsoffice.com

Date: June 27, 2026 at 5:10:12 AM PDT

To: Xxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxxx.com

Subject: USPTO TRADEMARK VERIFICATION REQUIRED

Dear [Client’s name here]

Congratulations!

Your trademark application for the mark ” TUCK-A-WAY” has been successfully filed under serial number “99908441“.

Your application is now ready for the verification stage. To proceed, we would like to arrange a brief verification call to confirm the application details and ensure that the review process continues without delay.

To assist with scheduling and coordination, Peter Wilson will be available to help arrange a convenient time for the call.

Contact Details:

Name: Peter Wilson

Contact Number: (571) 207-7263

Appointment Number: 376A

Please contact Peter Wilson at your earliest convenience and provide both your trademark serial number and appointment number when reaching out. This will allow him to locate your file promptly, schedule the verification call, and coordinate the necessary arrangements.

Once your availability has been confirmed, Peter will assist in arranging the session and providing the relevant scheduling information.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Thanks & Regards,

James Hill

Federal Examining Officer

United States Patent & Trademark Office

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Do I need to say more? SCAM!