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To: goldworldnet who wrote (252812)	6/2/2008 11:37:45 PM
From: ManyMoose	of 793931

Somebody sent me an email with a link to felonspy.com (which I do not recommend that anybody follow, by the way). Felonspy.com purports to identifying felons and sex offenders in your neighborhood. All you have to do is type in your address. I was skeptical so, I entered a generic street name a few blocks away. It had so many hits that I felt like I was in a prison compound. Then I clicked again and got a completely different array of felons on the same map. I clicked a few more times, each time getting a different display. Some of the felons were out in the middle of the lake and some of them were well off any road. I never once got a name that I knew, and when I started getting hits on my neighbor's locations with names I didn't recognize, whom I knew personally by name I knew there was a problem. Obviously, it was bogus. I alerted the person who sent the link to me and he checked in out on Snopes.com. Sure enough: snopes.com I told the person who sent it to me that even if felonspy.com gave a correct report, the potential for abuse was overwhelming.

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