----- Original Message ----- From: <ImaBR@aol.com> To: <ALABAMA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:11 PM Subject: [Alabama] Warning > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >Subj: Genealogy scam > >Date: 09/03/2000 6:30:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time > >From: plfleming@shelbynet.net (Phyllis Fleming) > > > >I received this message after it was forwarded to the INGENWEB state > >coordinator: > > > >About 2 weeeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives submitter > >that her materials were found on a genealogy subscription service: > > > >www.familydiscovery.com > > > >The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they were > >linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped inside a > >frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to investigate > >this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not received a > >user id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the web > site > >gave bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number goes to > a > >recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the > e-mail > >adds on their web site bounce. > > > >Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it appears that > >several > >folks' web sites have been prize-mined: > > > >http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm > > > >The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come from > >USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come from > >non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either > >rootsweb or usgennet. > > > >If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or > >has been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" jfisher@ucla.edu>] would > >like to > >hear from you. > > > >Permission is gr > > > ==== ALABAMA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list. Send your request to > Alabama-L-request@rootsweb.com leave the subject line blank, > and put the word unsubscribe in the body of message. > >