First, they're fake, and John Gray - a well-known digital lawyer - has nothing to do with them.
Let's look at just a few issues.
1. The privacy-protected domain ipcoreau(.)com was registered on August5,2025, and it's set to expire on August5,2026. Ownership is masked behind privacy settings.
2. The recent registration and obscured ownership are potential red flags, especially for a business claiming to offer legal and IP services.
3. The site states it "employs Lawyers from throughout Canada," yet uses an Australian-focused domain and provides an Adelaide address - this discrepancy is suspicious, and a clear indication of fraud.
4. They claim to have "assisted 100k+ successful registrations with the US Patent and Trademark Office," along with "10 Years of Experience," "25,000 Logos Trademarked," etc. There's no verifiable proof of these numbers, no names of staff, and no external validations. No reference to Australia.
5. No credible references in search engines, lawyer directories, news articles, legal publications, or IP professional networks that mention the business name or identify any people associated with it.
7. Their generic privacy, terms, disclaimer etc refer to US legislation.
The website aligns with known IP-related scam patterns, but getting duped wouldn't be hard.
I've received over 2000 emails from fake brokers over the last couple of years, and I take particular offence to this practice since they're kept alive by brokers that buy crap leads. They'll also make phone calls, run ads, and use other tactics, but email is cheap, and with every email on the planet compromised in some way, it's a simple scam method.
I replied to one of these fake broker emails yesterday and got a phone call from a broker that lives about 20-minutes from where I live. He believed he was paying for Facebook advertising.
Stop the #finspam.
