From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Apr 25 09:39:00 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3PFd0jb023411; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:39:00 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3PFcWlj018126 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:38:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3PCixFI018327 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:44:59 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3PCixJX018326 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:44:59 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3PAHtFI017964 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:17:55 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3PCoimt010063 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:50:44 -0600 X-Envelope-From: MaeMay510@aol.com Tue Apr 25 06:50:44 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3PCoijb010052 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:50:44 -0600 Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (imo-d21.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.207]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3PCoYgK006021 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:50:39 -0600 Received: from MaeMay510@aol.com by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.395.1af22de (3956) for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:50:25 -0400 (EDT) From: MaeMay510@aol.com Message-ID: <395.1af22de.317f7511@aol.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:50:25 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5301 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Scam or not--AOL In a message dated 4/24/2006 11:01:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: Just in case you did not know. > Read below. > In the class action titled Ramer and Neer et al v. MyFamily.com, Inc. and > Ancestry.com, a class was certified and a settlement has been reached. According > to the records of MyFamily.com, Inc., you are a member of the class and are > entitled to the settlement benefit. I've been online for a good many years and I remember this or something similar made the rounds a few years ago. Always someone or some company sharing ill-gotten gains with us, the poor dumb public. I would be so suspicious of this. For 3 months I've received notices from AOL that our account has not allowed them to take out their payment. Someone was deducting AOL payments so I disregarded it until the last. My gosh, it was so authentic. Even AOL letterhead and photos, naturally an email link, and a telephone number. We were threatened with cut off within 24 hours. So my husband called the phone number and it was AOL. Seems genuine, right? But when she checked our account it had been paid monthly through automatic withdrawal and she asked if we'd clicked on the link. Of course not. But how clever of spammers and scammers to add a real long distant phone number to go with a free link to them. Most would save the few pennies and use the link. So do be careful when you get something like this. Call the number, see if it is genuine. The notice came again this month. The criminals never give up, it seems, so someone must be falling for their schemes and making them richer in the process.. Shirley Maynard Hampton, VA