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From: "Joel Barger" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT: GenSeekers.com Asking For Bank Account Information to Sign Up for Free Trial -- Beware
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:25:36 -0400
References: <000001c30fc8$e78dc690$6601a8c0@chestercheetah>


Checkout Dick Eastman Online News letter dtd 3/09/03

Joel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia Dumond" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 6:03 AM
Subject: [TMG] OT: GenSeekers.com Asking For Bank Account Information to
Sign Up for Free Trial -- Beware


> I received an e-mail this morning (SPAM, but I read it anyway) from an
> organization calling itself "Genseekers.com" and claiming to have a huge
> database of genealogical information. The e-mail was offering a 5 day
> free trial of their database, so I went to the web site to check it out.
> In order to participate in their free trial they were asking for bank
> account information -- not a credit card. Credit cards have fraud
> protection, but I don't think I would have given these folks even that
> since I've never heard of them. I sent them an e-mail via their contact
> link on the site and told them I hoped no one else was gullible enough
> to surrender their bank account information to an unknown entity.
>
> I don't usually post off-topic (or this way off-topic) posts, but I
> thought it was important to remind everyone that if you DO pay for
> something over the Internet, you should always use a credit card (or
> PayPal -- they don't even offer that option, which raises a huge red
> flag for me).
>
> - Pat Dumond
> - An American Family (HYPERLINK
> "http://www.dumond.org"http://www.dumond.org)
>
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