Everyone.....please take time to read this....it will save you a lot of headaches in the future!!!! You have permission to forward it to your lists.... CAT -----Original Message----- From: by way of Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> <TVick65536@aol.com> To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com <GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 11, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: [GAGEN] [BOARD-L] FW: [WIGEN-L] Family Discovery jumps to Prodigy >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: zorblitz@mindspring.com (zorblitz) >Reply-to: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com > >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: abuse@prodigy.com > >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. > > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Regional Coordinators are there to help County Coordinators. Don't > hesitate to contact them should you have any, any question. To find >info on your region visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/regional.html > >