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Warning about offering/doing look ups
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sarahjw03 | Report | 4 Oct 2005 22:35 |
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I think I know which site you are referring to! They do monitor which names you are regularly looking up if you use the index's and get very suspicious if you look for loads of different names. Re the whole spy thing, this has been put forward by others in the past, also suspended and is a logical explanation. Genes do not give out your details apparently, so the only way they can catch you that I can see is if you use the same email addy for sending images etc as you use to log into the said site, or use your real name on the boards. The moral of what I am saying here is use different email addy for each of these two sites, without using your real name in them, don't give out your real name, and don't do index lookups for many people! Sorry you got caught... Sarah |
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Unknown | Report | 4 Oct 2005 22:33 |
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Same thing happened to me in July,so had to stop doing lookups. Also Derbyshire Dancer.who I,m sure will add to your thread if shes watching |
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angels67 | Report | 4 Oct 2005 22:26 |
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Nice one Karen, Thanks for the warning will stay away, Keep smiling......xxx |
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Karen | Report | 4 Oct 2005 21:29 |
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Nudging this back up, the website who have banned me have a spy on this board. I dont care about naming and shaming the person, theyre name is Tree hugger, they may not take part in conversations on this board but trust me they are watching. No doubt this thread will now be removed, but trust me I've gone through alot worse in the last few weeks in my personal life that having a thread removed off here. |
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Unknown | Report | 3 Oct 2005 21:22 |
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Hi Karen That makes you the 3rd person this week! Lou |
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Dawnieher3headaches | Report | 3 Oct 2005 21:01 |
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ouch becareful Karen that rattle just hit my head. These sites seems to have you over a barrell, take your money and as you only need a couple of lookups they do well out of it. Keep throwing those toys I'm dodging now |
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Karen | Report | 3 Oct 2005 20:58 |
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For the last week or so I have been offering look ups on the 1841 Berkshire census name index and the 1851 London census name index which I subscribed to through a website - I'm not mentioning the website as I dont want to give them any free advertising. They have decided I have been doing too many look ups and that they cant possibly all be for myself so have suspended my account. Ok I admit it was in their terms and conditions that look ups werent allowed, but I had done all the look ups that I needed to do for myself and I wasnt going to let the remaining credits go to waste (I only needed to do about 6 look ups for myself). I have sent a very angry email back to the company but I just needed to throw my toys out my pram for abit longer. Karen |
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