Nancy L Galaway wrote: > Dear Stan, > > How very thoughtful of you to do all that research for us poor suckers > out here. > > Well, I am here to tell you Stan that we are not the suckers in Nebraska > that you think. I > think you are the worst kind of fraud man that uses the cover of some > thing else, > genealogy , in this case to promote your own business. > > If I decide to invest my money it will be with a legitimate company in my > local area that I > have researched and not with a so called genealogist professing to do me > a big favor. > > If I was the owner of this list I would have you permanently removed. > > Nancy Galaway > > Stan Wrote: > Hi > > Those of you who know me know that I spend so much time, often until 3am, > at > the computer on my genealogy. Being on so many lists, I have, like most > of > you, been spammed hundreds of times about ways to make money at home > while > using a computer. I decided to check some of these out to write a > "beware" > list to post here for benefit of list members. I still plan to do this. > The > absolute worst one I found, in terms of the investment they require to > participate, and also it seems the most frequent message, is Travel > Dynamics. That name is not often identified in the message, but you soon > find out when you place the call. Another call is set up where you are > asked to invest from just over a thousand dollars to many thousands of > dollars for the right to earn extra income. Wow! I make no claim that > this > company is fraudulent, it may be legally legitimate and those who can > afford > it may make money, I do not know. But I just thought that the total > concept > was ridiculous. > > During the past year I have checked out every such spam. I can tell you > that most of them are spam scams. Out of all these I did find 3 that are > very legitimate(including one that is owned by Federated Stores, ie > Bloomingdales and Macy's etc, two former Dell Computer Executives and a > former Chairman of CompUSA and Computer City), so much so that I have > signed > up myself, even though I had no intention of doing so when I started this > investigation hobby. Last week I decided that I would let you know about > the "legitimate" by sending out an email about each one to persons in my > address book. I started doing this and it was very successful, but > decided > that way could be interpreted as spamming myself. I did receive three > replies flaming me for spamming, indicating that my objective had been > misunderstood, and rightly so, by the form that I had decided to > communicate > this message. > > Therefore, although sending to this list a "beware" list of spammers is > appropriate, I am not sure that sending to this list a "recomendation" > list, > even if it is only 3 companies long, is appropriate. Therefore, those of > you > who would be interested in finding out about the three excellent and > legitimate additional income opportunities, in my opinion, please contact > me > privately, not through the list, and I will send you the information. > > Thanks > > Stan > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Please Good Folks, I will moderate the list. These comments are just as off topic. Should you wish you may contact me personally about them that is fine and I will answer. Thank You. Bill ListOwner --