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From: "Debbie Spencer" <>
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] Trouble with genealogy.com and related services?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:36:31 -0500
References: <14d.26f2e965.2cee7057@aol.com>


Debbie - Thank you for posting this message and possibly preventing another
unsuspecting soul from being abused and walked on. Evidently it's been very
successful for them in the past, or they wouldn't continue their sly methods
of extracting money from you.

My concern is how many older people are being taken...

----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] Trouble with genealogy.com and related services?


> In a message dated 11/20/2003 2:18:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > Is it possible you
> > accidently checked some box on one of the sites agreeing to receive
phone
> > calls from them, or something like that? I do know that in order to
> > unsubscribe from Ancestry, you have to phone them. They won't do it via
> > email.
> >
>
> I never check boxes encouraging junk mail or phone calls, but even if I
had,
> I TOLD them repeatedly by phone to stop calling me. Seriously, I was
getting
> WEEKLY phone solicitations to sell me other packages for both
genealogy.com and
> ancestry.com. And the weird thing about being re-subscribed was that first
> they sent me an e-mail telling me my subscription had expired, to which I
> replied "Good. Don't ever darken my doorstep, again, etc." but THEN they
> re-subscribed me using my credit card without permission.
>
>
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