> -----Original Message----- > From: Joy Fisher [SMTP:jfisher@ucla.edu] > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 4:30 PM > To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Possible Genealogy SCAM > > Hi Everyone: > > 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 <HTML> 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 <PRE> </PRE> --- and paste > your text file in between the <PRE> and the </PRE> -- 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 would like to hear from you.