I received the following from another genealogy list that I am on,
and thought it worth forwarding. 
Judy

  ----- Original Message -----
 Subj:   Genealogy scam
 Date:   09/03/2000 6:30:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time
 From:   [email protected] (Phyllis Fleming)
 
 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
 adds 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.
 
 If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or
 has been ripped off by them, I ["Joy Fisher" [email protected]>] would
 like to
 hear from you.
 
 Permission is granted to forward this message.
 
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