Great info and thanks for sharing. We ALL must be on the look out for things such as this. ----- Original Message ----- From: <vaboteto-request@rootsweb.com> To: <vaboteto@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:02 AM Subject: VABOTETO Digest, Vol 3, Issue 75 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy Websites > (pattee@charter.net) > 2. Re: Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy Websites > (Jokagal@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 4:32:26 -0700 > From: <pattee@charter.net> > Subject: [VABOTETO] Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy > Websites > To: vaboteto@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20080411073226.9QJ0F.155733.root@fepweb13> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > This came from Eastman's Online Genealogy list. Thought it would be of > interest. > Patti > > Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy Websites > Writing in the Ancestry.com blog, Mike Ward is warning other genealogists > of fraudulent web sites posing as genealogy sites. These sites take your > credit card information and provide little in return. > > Mike writes: > > We have recently become aware of three websites purporting to allow family > history research: SearchYourGenealogy.com, Ancestry-search.com and > Australian-Ancestry.com. The sites claim to have ?the largest online > genealogical search tool? and promote themselves as the foremost resources > for genealogy, but from what we can tell, these sites are nothing more > than a series of web pages with links to other services. These sites, in > our opinion, are clearly fraudulent. > > On each site, potential customers are lured to purchase under what we feel > to be false, misleading and deceitful promotional material, and get little > or no value out of money spent at the websites. Blog and message board > posts from the community confirm this opinion. > http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/04/potentially-fra.html > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:47:33 EDT > From: Jokagal@aol.com > Subject: Re: [VABOTETO] Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as > Genealogy Websites > To: vaboteto@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <d00.2bbc2d6b.3530e215@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Thank you for this warning. > > Joanne Galvin > > > Bloomfield, Michigan > > Researching Northup, Hampton, McCall, Phelps, Blake, Daggett, Syler, > Berridge,Plymale, Kinder, Cottrell, Gilbert, Baker, Rood > > > > **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. > > (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the VABOTETO list administrator, send an email to > VABOTETO-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the VABOTETO mailing list, send an email to > VABOTETO@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VABOTETO-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of VABOTETO Digest, Vol 3, Issue 75 > *************************************** > >