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From: "Don Raney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT: GenSeekers.com Asking For Bank Account Information to Sign Up for Free Trial -- Beware
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 11:22:52 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000001c30fc8$e78dc690$6601a8c0@chestercheetah>
GenSeekers is a SCAM!!!
They only point you to existing information on the Internet.
Once they have your Account Number for a 5 day free trial, you will never be
able to cancell the free trial and you will be charged for a full membership.
> 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.
Don Raney, 1506 Comanche Trail, Garland, TX 75043
Phone:972-278-3381, e-mail:
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