Good warning from another roots web list worth passing on
Neal
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Date forwarded: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:28:56 -0700
From: janedevlin(a)ameritech.net
Date sent: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:34:20 -0500
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Subject: [CTMID] Family Discovery is at it again.. Watch out..
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I don't normally send things like this to the list, but this company is bad
news and I think a warning is justified. This was just posted to one of the
other lists I'm on. Family Discovery is an outfit to avoid like the plague.
I've
gotten two SPAMs from them in the last week, both of which I reported. There is
an interesting page at
http://www.compuright.net/familydiscovery/index.shtml with
more detail on the story behind these scam artists.
Jane
list mom
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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(a)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.
--
Linda Emerson
Coordinator - Union Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
http://www.rootsweb.com/~paerie/townships/Union.htm
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