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Genealogy Scams

The barrier of your ancestral research:

We search for our genealogical roots for several reasons; it might be of determining the history of the ancestors or tracing the risk of getting certain hereditary diseases or settling the question of land ownership or getting the geological proof of a family connection for potential heirs. It is reason enough for anyone to determine their ancestral truths, so many people be in touch with the online genealogical websites to quench their curiosity of knowing their family tree. Seeking websites help for dealing these types of sensitive issues might work for some, who have proper awareness on internet scams but not many, since in this technology driven

world internet is been the hub for scammers, who doesn't spared the genealogy world too. Genealogy scams are much serious than any other modern scams as it has potential to pull off your hard earned money or family heirlooms in a single e-mail.

Fake genealogical websites are the starting point:

The genealogy scammers set up a fake genealogical websites with the intention of scrutinizing your financial and personal information. They keenly look for people, who are interested in ancestral research and tempt them to register in their bogus website. All they make you to do is pay a huge sum of money for baseless genealogical results that are not even true in most cases. Not only squandering money, they will mine all your personal details and get you a victim of identity theft. If you show disinterest in registering, they will approach you through your personal mail telling that you have access on million dollar property of your great, great grandfather, who lived in overseas and the conversation ends with either getting you registered or sending a significant fee to accomplish the property that never reaches you.

The worst case in genealogy scam is that the e-mail you receive is not only sent to you but hundreds of thousands people around the world, who shares your surname and whoever contact them first is most likely to get scammed off first.

How to spot heir hunt scammers:

Genuine family tree hunters will not contact you through e-mail or chat; they will either contact you in person or make a call or send a letter. They will be ready to offer enough counseling before getting you into the search process and they will not hesitate to make direct meetings. Whereas the bogus online scammers will never be ready to see your face at all, they want all the transactions get done only through online, they make you pay upfront for the service and send you the mail that contain only the name and the fake address of the ancestors, who are creatively built by the scammers itself in many cases.

Never say "yes" to uninvited properties:

The desire of getting rich in short span of time is the reason for many to fall victim in genealogy scam and people fail to understand the fact that uninvited properties will never fetch them anything good in any means. So it is wise to show your deaf ears to such tempting mails that offer you with great money claims to put a barrier across these genealogy scams.