I know most people that read this wouldn't be fooled by something like this - but I thought I'd just quickly post this incase anyone else had been targeted by this little scam.
If you have registered an Australian trademark - this goes onto a public database and some people are trying to take advantage of people's gullibility when it comes to international trademarks.
The letter comes from a company called TMWorldwide - International Catalogue of Trademarks and encourages trademark holders to pay them 1100 Euros to register their TM worldwide. The address & bank details on mine are Sarvar, Hungary - but I'm guessing they could come from anywhere.
I'm sure they probably do put you on some database (to get around trade descriptions) but I called IPAustralia and it is a scam and they have no jurisdiction in this area.

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I just checked their website
I just checked their website and they do indeed publish "an exclusive, not official, catalogue THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF TRADEMARKS". I'm not going to link to it to give them any google rank - but trust me - the site is dodgy!
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