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
Computer users can do something about the prevalence of spam and viruses by taking advantage of spam blockers. It is even recommended that big companies that are in need of email spam filtering make use of anti spam appliance. A spam appliance is a hardware device that is used together with a spam filter software for instant messaging and email filtering and spam solutions.
February 1st, 2009 at 3:25 am
siteadmin@corp.fanbox.com; (obviously them)
support@corp.fanbox.com; (obviously them)
nocsupervisor@networksolutions.com; (their regitar, might as well include them on the fun! Maybe they’ll stop serving them?)
iana@iana.org; (internet asigned numbers authorty, I’m sure they won’t like getting spam from fanbox via permissions from your newly created fake e-mail addy)
raupabuse@arin.net; (american registry for internet numbers, they probably won’t like it to much either?)
spam@uce.gov; (The U.S. F.T.C., where you should forward all of your spam to. By having them on your contacts list you can bypase having to forward it to them and let fanbox send it to them directly… Maybe give them a nick-name in your contacts list, like Uncle Sam)
mpousti@corp.sms.ac; (the president michael pousti)
mikepousti.com@domainsbyproxy.com; (another for the prez of the dreaded fanbox.com)
dca@dca.ca.gov; (department of consumer affairs in calif.)
sysadmins@sms.ac; (sms.ac is the same as fanbox.com)
sysadmins@corp.sms.ac; (same as above)
So, no, they are not all the spammers. But if you notice I said: “which are really them and theirs and government organizations”
Unfortunatly this forum disables spell check (among other things) so it read relly instead of really.
It would be nice if the owner of this site went in and corrected the anomalies that make it a pain in the ass to post in.
Have fun making fanbox/sms.ac spam themselves!
January 31st, 2009 at 10:05 am
Evilcozpoetry,
You sure those emails you mentioned are spammers’ emails?
January 31st, 2009 at 1:29 am
Hello all i need is to get this fanbox deleted from my computer , i dont like the groups i want out thanks Daisy
January 30th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Here is something that might be fun to try.
make a new fake e-mail acct with yahoo or hotmail.
add these addy’s to your contacts list.
siteadmin@corp.fanbox.com
support@corp.fanbox.com
nocsupervisor@networksolutions.com; iana@iana.org; aupabuse@arin.net; spam@uce.gov; mpousti@corp.sms.ac; mikepousti.com@domainsbyproxy.com; dca@dca.ca.gov; sysadmins@sms.ac; sysadmins@corp.sms.ac; sysadmins@corp.sms.ac
with a little investigation you can probably find a few more to add to that…
And then go in to fanbox,
open an acct there,
and choose to let them unlock you new fake acct and harvest all your contacts,
which are relly them and theirs and gov orgs.
So they’ll be spamming themselves!
Oh and the formating in this box really sucks…
have fun!
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 am
plz i need your account
January 16th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I have a friend from high school that I recently added to my friends list on Facebook, and he’s constantly sending me “prayers” from there, but now I’m getting others from people I don’t know. I received one this morning, and looked for the “opt out” link, and there wasn’t one! Have they now discontinued to put that link on emails sent out? I tried going to their website and seeing if they had that link, and ended up with 25+ web pages popping up one right after the other and ended up having to shut down my computer as fast as possible and rebooting! I’ve done as suggested and put the domain in my blocked area, I truly hope it works!
January 10th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I received my first email from my niece, age 12. She probably enjoyed getting the emails. I’ve warned her Mom that it’s a virus
January 9th, 2009 at 9:44 am
For fanbox spam on a free yahoo email just add a filter. You can use up to 15 filters on a free account. Sign in, click help, click edit my account, re-enter password, on the right under options click mail, under management click filters, click add, no filter name needed, type fanbox in remaining 4 windows(From header: To/Cc header: Subject: Body:), in the drop box select move to trash and you will never see a fanbox email again, not even in your spam.
December 31st, 2008 at 7:36 am
sorry added note I pressed the enter button by mistake… you see even people who have had computers most of there lives make mistakes.
Not Harry but Rhodilee
Anyway what I am trying to say …Spam is like the letters you get through the post at home..offering stupid loans …how many of you take that up ???? think of the Spam that comes through your email as the same!! Jesus its not hard science…Email is no different from your letterbox well accept it is usually free!!when you get a letter from someone you do not know offering this and that…what do you do with it??? you bin it!!! same with emails…
December 31st, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hi Harry
the point here is most people who use the internet don’t really know what they are doing…. the thing is Mariline must be subscribed and she must be receiving emails from this blog as she commented here. Anyway apart from this listen you newbies…..If you get a email from someone you do not know and do not trust then do not click on any links in the email. Do not join anything unless you have checked it out first. Come on people it is easy how did you find this blog?? check first before signing up for anyone or website. Make sure if you ever sign up for anything you use an email that is something like a yahoo or live,msn something you can forget and not worry about later. N