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
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October 20th, 2008 at 1:33 am
How do you delete your account on FanBox,I have been getting to many spam from FanBox,please help me!!!!
October 19th, 2008 at 6:32 am
I have been receiving messages from FanBox and for about a year I just didn’t think much about it. I just thought it was one of those sites that I signed up for. The odd thing is that I never remembered signing up for it. Thanks for your help everyone. Now I know what I have to do to get rid of it.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:13 am
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October 15th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Do not use my e-mail for SPAM requests to Fanbox. Thank You! Helen
October 12th, 2008 at 7:06 am
In Yahoo Mail, block the faxboxnotes.com domain so that the messages don’t make it to your mailbox period.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I deleted my account from fanbox a long time ago and I stopped getting spam. I have no idea how I got an account with them in the first place. Anyways I didn’t get spam from them in months. All of a sudden they spam me again. I reported it as spam but it keeps coming back into my inbox.
It’s so annoying.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Melanie,
Delete your acc’t compeletely, it’s just plain SPAM!
Read my previous post on how i got rid of it…now i don’t get anymore stuff from fanbox AT ALL!
October 8th, 2008 at 6:22 am
I just had to delete my account–stoped it immediately–it was all porn and spam anyway–no loss.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Friends and family are telling that they are receiving messages from me like this one:
“Subject: Melanie is sending you a Martini on FanBox.
Using the application SuperPing:
Melanie is trying to send you a Martini. Come and get it — and send one to your friends! Launch Application on FanBox”
I do have a yahoo account, as well as facebook and myspace. This message seems to be facebook based.
How can I stop this and ensure that no more spam is sent to people I know on my behalf? It is landing in their inbox rather than their spam box. Is it generated from my yahoo address book?
THIS IS EMBARRASSING!!! Please help!!! Thank you.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Hi guys,
I used to work at Fanbox and I actually wrote the opt out procedure that techcrunch wrote about. The ceo of the company is a complete scumbag which is why you continue to get his spam messages. To the writer of the article: the email team wrote a program that will log in to your yahoo account and whitelist fanbox email addresses. That is why even though you mark them as spam they still arrive in your inbox. You need to remove them from your whitelist. If you opted out of the emails and are now receiving them again, they must have started removing people from the blacklist. This could only happen because they ran out of new people to spam and had to go back to their old people. I assure you that I felt horrible for the messages being sent, and so do most of the employees that work there. Although, most employees only stick around for about 3 months. The company treats its employees little better than its users. I could go on and on about how illegitimate their business is, but Michael Pousti would probably come after me. Seriously, he is a contender for the world’s biggest douche. He thinks he’s the next Bill Gates, and to his credit he is a smart and sly guy, but despite his dreams he will never lead a big successful company because at the end of the day he is deceitful and doesn’t understand that you have to command people’s respect for them to want to use your product and come back.