[or-roots] Re-fake family hisotry

[Diane]

MessageThis scheme has been around for years.  Before I retired as a Postmaster...there were many citizens caught up in this mess.  Then I got hollered at because of their failure to listen...or read.  We even went so far as to put a public notice on the bulletin board to beware of these schemes.  The crooks were just one jump ahead of the postal inspectors for a long time. I hope the swindlers get nailed---and HARD.
  THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE DENVER POST

  25 Nov 2005



  State Sues Genealogy Company

  The suit claims 150,000 people nationwide were swindled out of $49.95 each when they bought a book with fake family histories from Morphcorp of Denver.

  By Manny Gonzales 

  Denver Post Staff Writer  



  For $49.95, people who bought genealogical "yearbooks" from a Denver-based company got the same family coat of arms, the same family recipes and even the same family jokes, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. 



  And it was a lucrative scam that swindled 150,000 people nationwide who bought into fake family histories, according to the civil suit filed by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. 


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