Even though most of you have heard of these guys and know to ignore them, there are people who need to be informed. This company does change their scam name name every few years. Forward copied below. ************************************************ This is from the USGenWeb Organization. There is an organization called Family Discovery that is a scam. They charge people to subscribe to their genealogy web services and then link to the files in the USGenWeb that are free for anyone to access. This is forwarded by permission: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:47:19 -0800 (PST) > From: Joy Fisher <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] FamilyDiscovery is up to old tricks > Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:47:12 -0700 > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Hi Everyone: > > The old genealogy scam is back. www.genseekers.com > > Behind the password protection are links to the free > genealogy on-line. There is no content of their own. > > In order to get the "5-day free trial" you have to > surrender a credit card or bank account number. You > have to cancel within 5 days or you get dinged. Guess > what? The cancellation e-mail bounces. Does this > surprise you? > > One person who recently fell for the come-on had > his/her account dinged not once, but twice. > > It is time to remind folks on your state and county > mailing lists about these scoundrels. It has been a > couple of years since we have mentioned this. > > Permission is granted to pass this on. > > ______________________________