The Fanbox Scam
I have had some information on this site about the “Fanbox Scam” or what I consider to be a scam for more than a year.
I find it interesting that people still search for this after all this time.
I do know that all of the reports I hear are that something in the Fanbox program does go after e-mail addresses and the like. I know from personal experience that they do send a good amount of what I consider unsolicited e-mails, that I consider to be spam.
I only call the Fanbox Scam a scam, because it does go after some information on your computer much more aggressively that anything I wish to deal with on my computer.
I don’t know why, with so many people searching for information about Fanbox, that a few won’t take just a couple minutes to comment on why they are looking for this information.
Quite obviously they do feel, or at least many feel that the Fanbox Scam is in fact a scam, or it would die out, which it hasn’t.
Why don’t people help others and leave their information in the comments on blogs such as this? No personal data is recorded for any purpose, I don’t even require registering, I just want those that have either negative or positive information concerning the “Fanbox Scam” to leave comments to help others finding this site.
A real good case for using the internet to help others, and it costs no one anything except a couple minutes of your time.
I value comments much more than I do the advertising of today because advertising at one time had a sort of motto, “Truth in Advertising” meaning there was some truth to advertising. I don’t know that we have much of this anymore.
What we do have is the internet where we can help others by posting our personal experiences to help others avoid some of the nearly unscrupulous advertisers.
Why don’t we all just help ourselves by getting the truth out?
Dear everyone,
Either you know me well or don’t, but I have to send out this mass email to warn you that FANBOX has stolen my email contact information with your names on it.
If you are to receive any emails with familiar names , as if the mail is being sent by someone you know, please be careful. This morning, I opened an email, thinking that it was from someone I know well, so I clicked on ” view photos”, but in fact, as soon as I clicked, they stole all my information. Basically, they falsely used the name of a loved one and his email account to reach me. This might happen to you too now that they broken into my email account. Several family members and friends wrote to me and said I’ve contacted them, but I did not.
I have contacted this company to make complaints but they evaded all questions and deny any wrong-doing.
Here are some sites to report email abuse and fraud: http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/reporting.php
http://www.ic3.gov/faq/default.aspx
FANBOX should shut down.
FANBOX uses or phishes for emails to use for their ads. Please look for FANBOX and be careful. Again, all my sincere, sincere , apologies.
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Evan,
I forgot to add that this is an email that I wrote to my family, friends, and cohorts.
Thank you very much for the excellent information.
Received an email “xyzfriend shared some photos with you” today, opened it, recognize the friend’s name and clicked on link. Brought me to a profile.fanbox.com website asking me to confirm terms of service and enter my cell phone number.
I stopped right there but was deeply concerned with my own dumbness and have begun investigating what harm it might do. This is the site with the most recent information I came across.
Obviously, fanbox has my email address and my friend’s real name. That’s troubling but not surprising. Identifying contacts and email addresses is not complicated.
Interestingly, when I click the same link again, it brings me to a new site that asks me to click – whereby I would join a $9.99 monthly plan to be billed to my cell phone.
Already, fanbox has received confirmation that the email address is live and can be happily spammed in the future; it has my friend’s information, and it has my IP address and whatever the browser divulged. So, the new site builds on that information and sucks visitors into transactions. The site is entirely unrelated to the photo email – an indication to me that it’s not legit.
I have received several emails telling me that “______ has shared some vacation pictures with me” and requesting that I click the link. I have not clicked it because it seemed suspicious. I noticed that the link pointed to fanbox and that is how I ended up here. Looks like my instincts were correct that it is not legit and potentially damaging. Thanks.