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Subject: [CASANFRA] possible genealogy scam
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:51:57 EDT

Subj: possible genealogy scam
Date: 09/03/2000 6:30:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time
From: (Phyllis Fleming)
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Shelbers,

I received this message after it was forwarded to the INGENWEB state
coordinator:

>>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.

I would suggest we all add the Java applet to bust out of the
shrink-wrapping:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide script from old browsers
if (top.location !=self.location) {
top.location = self.location
}
// End hiding script from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>


This needs to be inserted between and <TITLE> on every
web page.

If you have text files on your web site, you will need to add a little
shrink wrapping of your own:

Create a blank web page -- use the tags ---
and paste your text file in between the and the -- and be
sure to add the Java applet.

If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or has
been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" <>] would like
to hear from you.

Permission is granted to forward this message.


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