Flannery-L Archives

From: "Flannery" <>
Subject: Fw: Family Discovery is at it again-SOME TRICKS OF OUR OWN
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:21:04 -0500

It looks like the Family Discovery scam is back to its old tricks.
For anyone whose not familiar with them, they are being
investigated on numerous counts of fraud, as they charge a
subscription fee for people to use a (bogus) search engine that
provides links to genealogy-related websites, just like the FREE
search engines (Yahoo, Alta Vista, Goggle, DogPile) do. They have
been sending blanket emails to various rootsweb lists, so the
message can get to those people subscribed to that list.

The message below was sent through one of my lists that is
currently discussing the Family Discovery scam...

Erin


Subject: Re: Family Discovery is at it again-SOME TRICKS OF OUR OWN


> This is OFF TOPIC (genealogy), so delete if you are not
interested. Thanks.
>
> Within the past 3 days, I've received about 5 of the same GEN
TRUTH emails,
> all from different email service providers and none specifically
addressed
> to me.
>
> Spammers pore over newsgroups and mail lists to obtain email
addresses to
> send their SPAM to. It's inevitable that your address gets
picked up if
> you subscribe to them.
>
> What you do is this:
>
> Forward a copy of the email to ABUSE@(insertcompanyname.com) (for
example
> ). They will investigate the sender. Terms of
Contract for
> most email and internet accounts specifically state it is an
abuse of one's
> account privileges to send SPAM, which is what this crap is, when
it is not
> solicited. If found guilty, they will get booted off that
service provider.
> This is a temporary setback for most of them, but at least it
stops the SPAM
> coming in for awhile.
>
> Second of all, put a BLOCK on the sender's email address (if you
use
> OUTLOOK). You may get other email from different senders
(sending the same
> crap), but it will weed out future emails from them.
>
> And THIRDLY:
>
> DO NOT REPLY TO THE SPAM MAIL, THIS ONLY GIVES THEM YOUR CORRECT
EMAIL
> ADDRESS!! This is an old spammer trick, when you reply to
"unsubcribe" you
> inadvertently "subscribe".
>
> Hope this helps someone else.
>
> Regards,
>
> Liz
>
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > "My name", GenTruth is your FREE biweekly
> > > newsletter that keeps you up to date with the quality of the
> > > latest research tools.

This thread:

• Fw: Family Discovery is at it again-SOME TRICKS OF OUR OWN by "Flannery" <>

  • Re: Fw: Family Discovery is at it again-SOME TRICKS OF OUR OWN by