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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December 6th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
well thankyou peoples i just got two or three emails from fanbox then so i deleted my cookies..shut down my computer…restarted my computer…and reclicked one of the links…followed your instructions…and my account has apparently been deleted…..i haven’t heard anymore from the bastards yet… but only time will tell…thankyou again for good info and being on the top of google…lol…btw i think i know which of my friends signed up for this bullshit and i have punished him by spamming and eleting him from my contacts…what else could i do?
December 4th, 2008 at 6:36 am
thanks for the info re: fanbox, time to catch these thiefs and put them in a box for a while..
December 1st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Just checked my emails a bit ago and I too have been *chosen* to receive a message from Fanbox. Seems someone I used to chat with on Yahoo was manipulated (phishing far as I can tell) into giving out their Yahoo ID and password information and everyone on their contact list was soon emailed afterwards.
I wasn’t sure what Fanbox was when I first got the message so I clicked on one of the links provided in the email to learn more. In hindsight that was a mistake on my part. I’m thinking (after the fact) that clicking that link notified the site my email address is active.
A quick search on Google came up with more information about FanBox and their nefarious practices. One site I looked at had some good information and advice. You might wish to search for and/or visit …
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/FanboxScam2.php
What I’ve done with regard to this unwanted intrusion of my PC is to …
A.) Block all incoming mail from the fanbox.com, fanboxapps.com and sms.ac domains. It was a simple step to enter those domains into my email filter options to have them blocked.
B.) I’ve forwarded the Fanbox mail to spam@uce.gov in hopes they will look at it and take some sort of action.
C.) The last thing I did was to go into my internet options and deleted all stored temporary internet files and cookies from my PC.
All I can do at this point is to be vigilant and hope I’ve done enough to discourage Fanbox from maintaining an interest in my email address.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:05 am
i was wondering what was up with all these “strangers” lewd and discusting email titles. I never bothered to open any of them, and I am getting an idea of the WHO of my friends joined up and thanks to them, these guys now have my email….GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
November 18th, 2008 at 4:09 am
i shouls say everything
November 18th, 2008 at 4:09 am
i want to stop recieving anything from this site
November 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
I am not (yet) getting masses of spam – ok, few suggest it, and few mails a day. What bothers me is that after I uploaded my pic on my profile, I started gatting a lot of interest for ghanian “ladies” – none of them with a cam (how strange that), who actually have never bothered to even look at my profile, as they kept asking age and location which are in my profile. The point is, I cannot see my email address ANYWHRE on fanbox, so how do they get my YM id? is there one little “app” which fish out the yahoo id out of my fanbox profile?
November 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am
if you want permanently to get rid then just upload a nasty pic. then create a bogus nemail at yahoo and join again just to complain about the pic.
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 am
I don’t like getting emails from fan box. So pleace stop sending them email to me. i don’t even know my email address on there any was. So pleace stop sending them. thanks…….. laterz……….
October 26th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I got into this mess because they made it seem like my mom sent me the email saying check this out you get like 10 GB online for pc back up files I thought I could trust it because they made it seem as if my mom sent me it.