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“Pay Now or Lose Everything”: Inside the Trademark Fee Scam Targeting U.S. Businesses

January 21, 2026
Jake Harrison
By Jake Harrison

The email looks official. The language is clinical. The legal citations are real. And that’s exactly why it works.

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