Ukraine--Kiev--"Gold"? #general
Daniel Kazez <dkazez@...>
After posting a message to JewishGen, I have been solicited by
a person in Ukraine who stated that perhaps some of the people on my family tree (>from Ukraine) had money and gold confiscated during WWII. In particular, he wrote: All information about victims that have been received as result of use of author method is a private property. We can send you information concerning each person indicated above, if you pay for the information. Thereafter, he faxed me pages stating his intention to search. Finally, he sent me e-mail stating that--surprise, surprise--he had found records for most of the surnames of interest to me (as I have them simply listed below). He asked me to send money to "complete the search." (By the way, none of my family ever lived in Kiev!) Last year, when I wrote directly to the Kiev Archives, this same person sent me a fax stating, essentially, "I have found records for you. Please send money." Is this a scam? Is he just hoping that someone will send money? I don't know. Last year, after he sent a fax regarding my Kiev Archives search, I posted a message on JewishGen asking if anyone knew him or could vouch for him. Not one person responded in the affirmative. Each time I have written a specific message to this person, asking for any details on his work, I have simply received in return another message asking for money. I do not wish to cast ill-will towards anyone. If you have been solicited (as have, I've heard, at least a dozen other JewishGen writers) then you will need to evaluate his messages on your own. I have no information that conclusively proves that he is not offering a reputable and valuable service. Dan Daniel Kazez <dkazez@mail.wittenberg.edu> Poland: TALMAN, ENGLANDER, JURKIEWICZ, STRAUSBERG, KIFER, CZAPNIK, BRODA Ukraine: OBERMAN-HOBERMAN-GUBERMAN, LISS, SOBLE-SOBEL, STEIN, AXMAN Turkey: KAZEZ-KAZES, ALHADEF-ELHADEF, FRESKO-FRESCO, HABIB http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/dkazez/fam/ent/fam.html
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