----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Frazier" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 4:09 PM Subject: [ILMADISO-L] Family Discovery site > I took a minute out of our volunteer typing time to check this site > out. > http://www.familydiscovery.com/ > > It is a fraudulent site because a membership gives you links to our > free sites. You do not have to pay to get to any site in USGenWeb > of which Macoupin County ILGenWeb is a part of. > Right here, there is no charge to get to all the counties in USGenWeb. > http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinkstext.html > We are all hardworking volunteers to have genealogy information > free for researchers. > > I have found links to our Macoupin civil war rosters, censuses, > which we spent many hours of volunteer time now to have unknowing > researchers pay a membership to click on a link to view our work. > Macoupin County ILGenWeb volunteers have put over 1400 pages of > free information and continuing to work to get more pages up. > > If any person finds our complete work in their membership, please > notify me. Please pass this information onto any list. Let's try to > keep these ripoffs from making their pile of money from our > volunteer work. > > Please pass this onto any list you might be on. Hopefully, this > site will be removed soon if not sooner. > > Thanks for listening. > > Gloria > > ------------------------------------------ > beginning of forwarded message. > This is forwarded with permission. Please share with other > USGenWeb Project > lists. > > Tina Vickery > SC WIGenWeb Project > _______ > Subj: [WIGEN-L] Family Discovery jumps to Prodigy > Date: 3/9/01 1:04:09 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: [email protected] (zorblitz) > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > True to their history, Family Discovery was getting "heat" for their > business (mis) practices and have now jumped to Prodigy and are also > using PayPal (info from the Belgium list). Their last server is thought > to have dumped them after receiving numerous spam complaints. This > company is thought to go to Gen sites of all kinds and pick the e-mail > address off them to use for spam mailings of the $49.00 "service". In > their spam, they say that another Gen site has suggested that they > contact the recipient, when the original gen site does not even know it > has been used for the addresses. Please consider encoding the e-mail > addresses on sites into the name so they can not be easily picked off > the pages. It means an extra "click" for visitors but the spammer's > programs only "see" a name and no addresses to pick up. Here is the > latest followed by a summery of recent events for anyone who wants a > quick update on the matter. > > It looks like the fictitious Family Discovery genealogy service has > moved to Prodigy now. I contacted Prodigy this morning and they have > asked that anyone who receives solicitation email from > familydiscovery.com to take the following steps immediately: > > 1) Forward the entire Family Discovery message to: [email protected] > > 2) Include the following information (most of which was provided by > Rita from the Oconto County, WI list): > > Please note that the attached message is now being sent through > your ISP > > service. They have been reported to various State Attorney General's > Office on computer fraud, but it is hard to catch up with them. > Originally the "company" linked to free information sites and > placed the > > pages in "frames" so that it looked like it was their own work. > Customers paid for that information. The scam, now, is paying for the > free information links and then they "move" frequently and leave their > paid-up customers without services. > > 3) Post these same instructions on any other lists today so that > Prodigy has a better chance of finding the spammers. > end of forwarded msg. > -------------------------------------- > ------------------ > Gloria Frazier > Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm > Maillists FRAZIER-L, ILMADISO-L > > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > LDS Family Search Engine: > http://www.familysearch.org/ > Illinois State Archives Databases including pre 1900 IL marriages: > http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/database.html > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/