Unauthorized Use of the HGS Website

Unauthorized Use of the HGS Website
For the first time in the recent history of the HGS Website, someone has been calling HGS members with commercial solicitations and even representing himself as being associated with the HGS.  Obviously, this is in direct violation of HGS policy and the HGS does not sell or otherwise authorize the use of your personal information for purposes of telephone solicitation.  Nor does having your number on the Texas and National No Call Lists seems to dissuade him.  I received a call at home the evening of 23 June, 2004 and my number has been on both lists since their inception.  I know of several other HGS members who have received similar calls.
These calls all seem to be coming from the same securities broker at Morgan Stanley. He has been warned by several members of the HGS Executive Committee and has been reported to the appropriate authorities with copies to his west Houston branch manager.  He has been told that his self-registration on the HGS Website has been blocked and that he can no longer read the member''s directory on line.
If you receive any unauthorized telephone solicitations, we suggest you ask where they got your phone number.  If you can trace it to unauthorized use of the HGS Website, please report it to the current HGS President with a copy to me, the Webmaster.
Dave CraneHGS/GSH Webmaster