Worth investigating?? Please distribute this alert. ---- Original Message ----- From: "susan cramer" Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 8:22 AM Subject: BEWARE genealogy scam > Hi , > > I got this from a local genealogy group about a scam not only involving > Lake County, Indiana, but also Washington County, Pennsylvania. Please > read the entire message, where Washington County, is mentioned towards > the bottom of this message. The scam involves The website below > selling subscriptions at $49.95 to view databases. > Sue > > From: "Joy Fisher" > > To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:30 PM > Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Possible Genealogy SCAM > 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. > > Permission is granted to forward this message.