My good friend Righard Zwienenberg received one of these emails claiming that Jacques Tits wanted to register his company's name. You can read of his experiences at http://norman.com/Virus/Blog/righard_zwienenberg/56117/en-us.
I just had a little fun with the scammers. Righard strung them along for a while. It is an interesting read complete with email exchanges. My emails were a bit off color, so I thought it best not to post them :)
Randy Abrams
Director of Technical Education