Trademark Registration & Monitoring Office "You must pay the full amount posted to avoid additional penalties" is the first line of this scam letter. It looks official since the Trademark Registration Office is a U.S. government entity and one Los Angeles, California

I received a bill from the Trademark Registration and Monitoring Office. It had all correct information about my trademerk and staed the "You must pay the full amount by 10/29/12." At first, I thought the Trademark Registration Office of the U.S. Government was billing me.  My first thought was to pay the bill immediately.

I went online, despite the fact that there was no listed web address, to track them down only to find many complaints about similarly named companies with different addresses, who were fraudulently billing people with trademarks.  Needless to say, I did not pay this bill for $485.00.