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.
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.
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
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
August 29th, 2008 at 6:01 am
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August 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
STOP SENDING ME FANBOX EMAILS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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.
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
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 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 24th, 2008 at 3:11 am
please delette my account and stop to send me emails 10x
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.
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 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 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 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 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 15th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Do not use my e-mail for SPAM requests to Fanbox. Thank You! Helen
October 17th, 2008 at 10:13 am
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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 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 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.
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……….
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 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 18th, 2008 at 4:09 am
i want to stop recieving anything from this site
November 18th, 2008 at 4:09 am
i shouls say everything
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
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.
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 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 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…
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 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 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 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
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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 29th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I DO NOT WANT NO MORE EMAIL FROM YOU
THANK YOU
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 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 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 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
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…
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.
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 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 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 am
plz i need your account
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 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 31st, 2009 at 10:05 am
Evilcozpoetry,
You sure those emails you mentioned are spammers’ emails?
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!
February 14th, 2009 at 2:03 am
i do not want anymore fanbox spam or noreply mail back on my yahoo emails. this site is trying to take over my yahoo home page. make them leave me and my yahoo email alone.
thank you debbie
February 15th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Debbie,
If the fanbox removal method mentioned in the post doesnt work,the best thing you can do is to make yahoo aware of those fanbox spam messages you receive and you can to this by marking the fanbox message as spam.
February 19th, 2009 at 4:51 am
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February 25th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I will be forced to close my yahoo account just because I keep reciving those fanbox stuffs. I create a spam guard to delete all those ind of email but just stop some of them.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I use facebook but till I not get any message of this kind and if I will get any message of this kind I will ignore that.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:38 am
I would like my acccount deleted and have all my cell phone charges off my cell phone plz
April 18th, 2009 at 2:15 am
please. do’nt send any massage in my cell-phone….I really do’nt like it….therefore I hope you guy understand what do I want….please I haven’t understand what did you say….so I hope when you get this message.. I don’t want any message from you….thankyou
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:50 am
I don’t want to receive any more fan mail don’t know some of the people on this site.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Hi,
STOP SENDING ME FANBOX EMAILS PLEASE, PLEASE.NO MORE.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:19 am
pleas stop taking money from my prepaid account im not intersted in any faxbox messages so don’t be taking any more money.thank you
erickamonroy