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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:53:09 EST

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This alert was on another list, and I felt that it was important to share
with the people on this list. Please read the following information it may
be important to all researchers.

Marilyn



> 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:
>
> 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.





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