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 31st, 2008 at 3:15 am
Harry,
Thanks for your comment. I guess, some people get so annoyed with the fanbox email they just want to blurt out how they feel through this blog but yeah people I am not the one who sends you the fanbox emails
Stefos,
I already tried to check out whether Mariline is indeed subscribed to this blog but I can’t find the email she used in her comment so I guess she is asking FANBOX not to send her email but in case there are subscribers of this blog who want to unsubscribe, you can unsubscribe anytime by following Stefos’ advice. The “blue link text” can be found at the bottom of the email.
Happy New Year everyone, I hope fanbox will resolve to stop sending the fanbox email by 2009 hehehhe.
December 31st, 2008 at 12:28 am
Mariline
You are receiving emails from this blog because you subscribed to it, to stop receiving emails just click the blue link text at the bottom of the page: (You are subscribed to this entry. Manage your subscriptions).And follow the prompt to cancel.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
in response to the people who seem to beleive that this poor blogger is making the emails:
He is not sending the emails!, he is helping you! DO NOT SPAM HIS AWESOME BLOG WITH YOUR STUPID COMMENTS! if you want to tell the fanbox people that they suck balls then do it in a forum…..not here….
BTW:Hi to the other person called harry..lol
December 29th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I DO NOT WANT NO MORE EMAIL FROM YOU
THANK YOU
December 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
i want to have fanbox deleted from my desk top how do i delete it i dont use it and i want it off pleaze delete it ok and i dont like fan box i dont want it please delete i tried and i cant thanks for doing it for me
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
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December 19th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hmmmm well I am not sure who these people are but I received an email saying I had a note from love letters or something like that. I never click links through my email…however I searched for the site with my browser. I found it the first thing you notice is how good the site looks and so I tried the button that lets you in without having to sign in. I was presented with a page full of peoples pictures. I clicked on one and the and the virtual desktop opens, however my hard drive was going crazy at this point and I decided to close down my browser. I did a check on the site to see its worth cash at http://www.yourwebsitevalue.com and by the way your site is worth $9,063 but could be worth $18,318. Fanbox is worth $26,322 but could be worth $86,549 which means they get a lot of visitors but as the report at yourwebsitevalue.com says I quote “It seems that this website has a lot of traffic, but not alot of web recognition. This probably means that it get a lot of direct traffic (bookmarks). This can be good. It may also indicate that all traffic is paid for. In such a case, we would estimate this website real worth to be no more than $26,322″. I am not sure how long this site has been operating but going of the stats they are getting a hell of a lot of hits. Not sure what these people are up to?
December 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
dear sir , good day i would like to have the email and the password for the fanbox as i have always problems wz the pw and the -mail address so her is my e-mail sobhyahmed2003@yahoo.com and i hope that u can help me to open for me the fanbox again
thank u
sobhyahmed
December 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I’ve been trying to block @fanboxnotes.com for a couple of weeks.
When I try to block it on Yahoo, I get the following message:
Blocked Addresses
Unfortunately, there was a problem:
Please enter a valid e-mail address.
December 10th, 2008 at 3:01 am
I clicked on the initial link (my mistake, I know), but I DID NOT enter my password. I just closed the window.
Next thing I know there’s this email saying an account has been created for me. Am I doomed to received hundreds of emails from them at this point???
I really have not touched anything from them since. All I did was click that initial link and that’s it…