Hello List, I guess I have learned my lesson in passing along info about an old book for sale. Apparently the person selling these old books is very suspect. I won't do that again. Linda Z. O'Halloran Schuyler co., NY GenWeb coordinator ----- Original Message ----- Subj: [NORTHEAST] GensBookCorner - A. Fornari - If You Sent Money to Her and have NOT received the books....Have you been a Victim of Fraud? Date: 11/23/02 7:00:22 PM Pacific Standard Time From: [email protected] (Pam) Sender: [email protected] (Genealogy and history in the New England area.) Reply-to: [email protected] (Pam) To: [email protected] Hi All, I just got off the phone with the Lubbock Police Department in TX and Officer Larry Manale is trying to determine if this person (Amanda Fornari aka GensBookCorner on EBay) who sent out lists of over 70 books for sale recently actually planned to send the books that were purchased or is just a poor business person. In my case it took threats to receive the books I purchased from her. In at least another case she was very slow and in yet another case the person has yet to receive the books she paid for and the check was cashed in October. The books that this woman offered for sale were mostly antiquarian, and many for the Northeast, but there were some new and some reprints of historical books. As her posts came out repeatedly the distress became evident to the point of stating she was desperate to sell all as she was "going out of business" Officer Manale would appreciate anyone who has had problems with this person to contact him as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to him at : [email protected] He also asks that you put in the subject line FORNARI . He stated that he must have any reports of non delivery of goods by the 18th of December. He stated that if she was ONLY slow in sending your books, that is NOT grounds for criminal fraud and he cannot use this information. We know that she sent out the lists of books for sale to at least 90 lists on the rootsweb servers alone, I have copied this in to the head of the Univ. of Indiana servers as well so that if he has heard of anyone sending these books for sale posts to his lists, he can be aware also. I have also contacted Ancestry to see if they can get the word out in their announcement list. We know that she did try to sell the whole collection on ebay twice and her reserve was not met. Thanks and permission is granted to forward this to any list you saw her name on if she was trying to sell. Thanks, Pam Rietsch ______________________________ Subj: RE: [NORTHEAST] GensBookCorner - A. Fornari - If You Sent Money to Her and ha... Date: 11/24/02 9:51:51 PM Pacific Standard Time From: [email protected] (Pam) Hi Lanah, hmmmm...I wonder if Ebay took her items down as only a day or so ago, she still had several listed. I thankfully got mine from her after many threats and phone calls, but so far several did not but then we do not know how many she contacted as we heard she sent that list of books to 74 lists on Rootsweb alone....:((( According to the police they were well aware of her....so appears she is not new to crime....:((( So sad, you used to always be able to trust genealogists. Thanks for your thoughts! Pam

Linda and all, I think that the vast majority of times that one of us sees a book for sale that we know would interest others on this list, that it is a legitimate sale. It's sad that this person would be trying to run a scam, but I hope that it won't make anyone afraid to share a "find". We all need to investigate thoroughly when we decide to make a purchase but if we don't know they are out there, we could miss wonderful things. As in this case and as Linda did, if you find out something suspect about an offer you have shared, just let everyone know ASAP. I think this is the first time that any of us have shared this kind of info that the seller has turned out to be bogus. That's a pretty good record :) I can't remember how many years we have had this list and there are 700+ members most of the time so... Diane Diane Lerch Kurtz [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyseneca List Administrator for NYFingerLakes-L, NYSENECA-L and LERCH- L > Hello List, > > I guess I have learned my lesson in passing along info about an old > book for sale. Apparently the person selling these old books is very > suspect. > > I won't do that again. > > Linda Z. O'Halloran > Schuyler co., NY GenWeb coordinator > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > Subj: [NORTHEAST] GensBookCorner - A. Fornari - If You Sent Money to > Her and have NOT received the books....Have you been a Victim of > Fraud? Date: 11/23/02 7:00:22 PM Pacific Standard Time From: > [email protected] (Pam) Sender: > [email protected] (Genealogy and history in the > New England area.) Reply-to: [email protected] (Pam) To: > [email protected] > > Hi All, > > I just got off the phone with the Lubbock Police Department in TX and > Officer Larry Manale is trying to determine if this person (Amanda > Fornari aka GensBookCorner on EBay) who sent out lists of over 70 > books for sale recently actually planned to send the books that were > purchased or is just a poor business person. In my case it took > threats to receive the books I purchased from her. In at least another > case she was very slow and in yet another case the person has yet to > receive the books she paid for and the check was cashed in October. > > The books that this woman offered for sale were mostly antiquarian, > and many for the Northeast, but there were some new and some reprints > of historical books. As her posts came out repeatedly the distress > became evident to the point of stating she was desperate to sell all > as she was "going out of business" > > Officer Manale would appreciate anyone who has had problems with this > person to contact him as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to him > at : [email protected] He also asks that you put in the > subject line FORNARI . He stated that he must have any reports of non > delivery of goods by the 18th of December. He stated that if she was > ONLY slow in sending your books, that is NOT grounds for criminal > fraud and he cannot use this information. > > We know that she sent out the lists of books for sale to at least 90 > lists on the rootsweb servers alone, I have copied this in to the head > of the Univ. of Indiana servers as well so that if he has heard of > anyone sending these books for sale posts to his lists, he can be > aware also. I have also contacted Ancestry to see if they can get the > word out in their announcement list. > > We know that she did try to sell the whole collection on ebay twice > and her reserve was not met. > > Thanks and permission is granted to forward this to any list you saw > her name on if she was trying to sell. > > Thanks, > > Pam Rietsch > ______________________________ > Subj: RE: [NORTHEAST] GensBookCorner - A. Fornari - If You Sent Money > to Her and ha... Date: 11/24/02 9:51:51 PM Pacific Standard Time From: > [email protected] (Pam) > > Hi Lanah, hmmmm...I wonder if Ebay took her items down as only a day > or so ago, she still had several listed. I thankfully got mine from > her after many threats and phone calls, but so far several did not but > then we do not know how many she contacted as we heard she sent that > list of books to 74 lists on Rootsweb alone....:((( According to the > police they were well aware of her....so appears she is not new to > crime....:((( So sad, you used to always be able to trust > genealogists. > > Thanks for your thoughts! > > Pam > > >