A lot of email users experience problem with fanbox and question it spam messages. I have been receiving fanbox and question it messages for several months now. I started to receive these messages from my friends but later on, I have been receiving fanbox messages from people I do not know. I already decided that these fan box question it emails are actually spam messages that I need to get rid of. Unfortunately, I still receive fan box and question it messages regardless that I have already marked them as spam.
What is fanbox?
Fanbox is the rebranded sms.ac but I would like to adopt gadgetpanel.com’s description of fanbox, “Fanbox is SPAM. They will phish your password and SPAM your friends.” Take note of the word phishing.
How to Stop Receiving Fanbox Spam
How to stop spam from fanbox? According to TechCrunch.com, to disable fanbox spam, click the “opt out” option from the fanbox email and you will see a screen that looks like this:
Click “Never” and “Save”. I will try to do this when I receive my next fanbox spam mail and see if this will work.
Update August 18:
I have not been receiving fanbox spam mails for quite a while now until this week. A new wave of fanbox fan messages are arriving in my spam folder. The message comes from NOREPLY@fanboxnotes.com with the subject “msg me on yahoo wants to be your loyal fan” and the email even has my own name on it!
Here is what the message contains:
Automatically sign in to view msg me on yahoo’s profile and/or photo, and accept or reject her fan request.
You can change the frequency of this type of notification. Visit our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy.
FanBox – 255 G Street #723, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Spam protection
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September 24th, 2008 at 3:11 am
please delette my account and stop to send me emails 10x
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Just send them a Trojan Virus/E-Mail Worm and they will delete your e-mail address. Take an old junker of a P.C. Say one that is a few years old running Windows 98. Make sure you do not update the software from Microsoft’s automatic update. Now hop on the internet and visit some sites in the shady areas of the world requesting financial hand-outs,…say Nigeria or Russia. Let their computers go to work and hijack your hard drive. Trust me,….. it’s worth it.
Then just wait for a stupid unwanted e-mail from trashbox and bam! Just reply back using your newly infected P.C. and the internet worm goes to work for you! Trust me,…they are desperate enough to take the bait. The key is to respond to ALL of their junk e-mails. Their firewall maps out to have more holes in it than a block of swiss-cheese!
Enjoy your vindication!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
hey there,
I just canceled my fanbox acc’t completely, i went to account, and just cancelled, so when i tried going back to one of the emails that contained “automatically sign-in” i clicked on it, and it said “page could not be found” so i guess it did work
September 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
i just opened one of the “loyal fan” invites and clicked on change. there is an option there to close the account. they say to allow them 24 hours to update there system so we will see what happens
August 31st, 2008 at 6:52 am
SkyLord,
The instructions from tech crunch that I posted above seemed to work but I have not done it for these second wave of fan box spams that receive in my mail box.
Perhaps you can just mark the message as spam so your email service provider can identify such message as spam and filter them out.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
STOP SENDING ME FANBOX EMAILS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
August 29th, 2008 at 6:01 am
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August 18th, 2008 at 7:52 am
HOW DO I GET RID OF FANBOD ALLTOGETHER? NOT LISTED IN MY PROGRAMS–NOT IN CONTROL PANEL—ITS CRAP–AND NEEDS TO GO–SLOWS DOWN THE COMPUTER AND SPAM EVERYWHERE—-PEOPLE WANTING SEX–DISCUSTING—-THEY MAKE IT SO YOU CAN’T GET RID OF IT
June 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Hi Janet, it is great to have you visit my site. I still have a problem with these spam messages, they still arrive as “legitimate” mails in my yahoo mail. I noticed though that I have not been receiving these fan box and question it emails in my gmail.
This is another proof that gmail is more reliable than yahoo mail when it comes to screening spam
June 1st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Hi Rhodilee. They are indeed annoying. Good thing though, I noticed that all fanbox and question it messages now go to the spam folder automatically. It seems the web-based e-mail had categorically noted them as spam.