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YakkoWarner
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I'm just laughing at the idea of trying to make a 9 million dollar withdrawal using an ATM card....
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Your luck is just in time: Pat Moss/Ann Wisdom 1960 Austin-Healey.
Or the time I caught my father just as he was about to try to "bail his step-grandson out of jail" using iTunes gift cards. Really, Dad?? You're a lawyer, for cryin' out loud, you KNOW how bail works! What jurisdiction in the world would even ACCEPT iTunes gift cards, much less DEMAND them??
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That can be an issue as we get older, remembering how things work. Had a great aunt who had been the financial manager for a hospital chain, yet in her final years my cousins had to take away her access to money other than small sums to by gas, groceries and such. Seems she go into the "better safe than sorry" mindset when people went to scam her.
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Speaking of scams. Got an email this morning via my contact form from someone claiming to be a representative of some CBD company in the UK. The email claims I have violated their trademark and demanded that I immediately remove all images pertaining to their company. Of course they didn't't say which images were in question.
Of course I did not replay and certainly did not click on any links in this phishing email.
I did a quick search of "Trademark infringement scams" and ran across a forum where several people were discussing having received the exact same email, but the companies that were being claimed for Trademark infringement was completely random, as was the name of the "representative." It's obviously a scam in which the perps use a template and hope some poor schmuck will reply and fall into their trap.
Of course I did not replay and certainly did not click on any links in this phishing email.
I did a quick search of "Trademark infringement scams" and ran across a forum where several people were discussing having received the exact same email, but the companies that were being claimed for Trademark infringement was completely random, as was the name of the "representative." It's obviously a scam in which the perps use a template and hope some poor schmuck will reply and fall into their trap.
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One of the things we do is logo design, trade dress and the like. Durn-near had to become lawyers to be able to weave through the legal ramifications of trademark and copyright infringement. I could see how some folks would fall for the scam.
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Early on I worked for a company in Brooklyn. Inside every item they made was an "FG" which was the initials of the company founder. At some point they received a legal letter from Foster Grant (eye glass company) telling them that they must stop using the "FG" initials since this was there trademark.
The company I worked for wrote back and informed Foster Grant that their owner "Ferdinand G" had been using the "FG" since the early 1900's but since the company was going to change their name, Foster Grant could continue to use the "FG" without any recourse from them
The company I worked for wrote back and informed Foster Grant that their owner "Ferdinand G" had been using the "FG" since the early 1900's but since the company was going to change their name, Foster Grant could continue to use the "FG" without any recourse from them
Patent trolls, trademark trolls, and copyright trolls. They should all rot.
I work for a catalog retailer, and the number of big corporations (we're talking DuPont) as well as other "non-companies" who have threatened us for using their trademarks is nothing short of infuriating. So why don't they go after the manufacturers whose terms we are simply quoting? Because they know that bigger companies have better lawyers!
In one case, a so-called company claimed to own the term "dry break" and said that if we wanted to keep using their name, we had to carry their products. We immediately replied that we'd be very interested in carrying their products... and we never heard from them again. GEE, I WONDER WHY.
In case anyone else is in the age range to remember the 1997 song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, they were sued over it TWICE -- once by the conductor of the orchestra heard in the backing track (despite getting permission from the record label in exchange for royalties), and once by the manager of the Rolling Stones, because the backing track is from an orchestral arrangement of the song "The Last Time". As a result, The Verve got zero royalties on their hit song for 20 years. Every penny went to Jagger, Richards, the orchestra conductor, and the orchestra's record label. The Stones finally (voluntarily) signed over their rights to the song in 2019, 22 years after the song became a hit. Apparently the lawsuit was not their idea in the first place.
I work for a catalog retailer, and the number of big corporations (we're talking DuPont) as well as other "non-companies" who have threatened us for using their trademarks is nothing short of infuriating. So why don't they go after the manufacturers whose terms we are simply quoting? Because they know that bigger companies have better lawyers!
In one case, a so-called company claimed to own the term "dry break" and said that if we wanted to keep using their name, we had to carry their products. We immediately replied that we'd be very interested in carrying their products... and we never heard from them again. GEE, I WONDER WHY.
In case anyone else is in the age range to remember the 1997 song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, they were sued over it TWICE -- once by the conductor of the orchestra heard in the backing track (despite getting permission from the record label in exchange for royalties), and once by the manager of the Rolling Stones, because the backing track is from an orchestral arrangement of the song "The Last Time". As a result, The Verve got zero royalties on their hit song for 20 years. Every penny went to Jagger, Richards, the orchestra conductor, and the orchestra's record label. The Stones finally (voluntarily) signed over their rights to the song in 2019, 22 years after the song became a hit. Apparently the lawsuit was not their idea in the first place.
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I miss the days when someone trying to scam you actually had to work at it. Show up at your front door, spend on postage to send something, spend to make long distance calls. Doesn't make it less wrong, but you knew they weren't trying to scam millions around the world with a few keystrokes.
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Got this scam email a few minutes ago just AFTER I received a text from Xfinity letting me know my auto payment went through.
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I've had that one too.
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Yeah, I gave them your name so they would stop bothering me….. Guess it didn’t work
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What a coinky dink! I gave them YOUR name!Yeah, I gave them your name so they would stop bothering me….. Guess it didn’t work