Subj: possible genealogy scam Date: 09/03/2000 6:30:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time From: plfleming@shelbynet.net (Phyllis Fleming) Reply-to: INSHELBY-L@rootsweb.com To: INSHELBY-L@rootsweb.com Shelbers, 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 addys 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. I would suggest we all add the Java applet to bust out of the shrink-wrapping: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Hide script from old browsers if (top.location !=self.location) { top.location = self.location } // End hiding script from old browsers --> </SCRIPT> This needs to be inserted between and <TITLE> on every web page. If you have text files on your web site, you will need to add a little shrink wrapping of your own: Create a blank web page -- use the tags --- and paste your text file in between the and the -- and be sure to add the Java applet. 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 granted to forward this message. ============================== Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: http://pml.rootsweb.com/ ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <INSHELBY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (rly-zc04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.4]) by air-zc01.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 08:30:57 -0400 Received: from lists3.rootsweb.com (lists3.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.39]) by rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 08:30:30 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost)