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Has anyone else been getting inundated with questions from people you don't know at FanBox? Any ideas what up with the spam from that site?

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    I have been getting 6-8 a day. I finally put filters on my email to send anything with a "from" or a "subject line" including "FanBox" to send them immediately to trash. Voila! No more Fanbox spam. I have read that it is either a worm or a phishing scheme. If it is a worm it infects your email and emails itself to your friends. If it is a phishing scheme, when you enter your password into its login like I know it wants you to, whoever created the FanBox website now has your password and can do anything s/he/they want with your email. If anyone reports that they are getting FanBox emails from you, the advice I am reading is to change your email password, run adaware, spybot, and your virus protection.

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And I thought I was the only one getting these emails. I do not have a clue what is up with that. I have never even gone to the FaxBox website. When you figure out what is going on please let me know! :)

MIA

yes...and I can't get the f****ing thing to stop...it is spam like in its persistence..I have blocked it from sending but it gets through..I have gone onto the fan box website and tried to cancel my name etc..and nothing happens or it refuses to take me to the correct page...I am getting really pssed about this one...thanks for making me realize that it isnt just me:)

DA BEN DAN yanggui zi

Yeah, me. What the fuck is that crap?

yup.

I did get a few of them but since I don't know anyone from there I didn't open them ... I thought my lady had had something to do with it but she swears she didn't ... so as my friend redcatt says ...its a plot!!!

buxtonite ..slowly losing my mind

Actually now you mention it.. well this hunk from Oz has sent me an email via Fanbox.. desperate to be my friend, and i dont know him from Adam!! I mean this guy is seriously hunky and 23 years old - i wish i DID know him haha, but i dont even know how he managed to get in touch with me!

Mentalmum is back

I have been receiving them as well, although I may be a special case because I was invited by another AB member to the site. I have deactivated my profile and we'll see if that spares me from further Fanbox spam.

Old School - Doing daily battle with SKOS

Now that you mention, I've gotten several "invitations" from people I don't know on Fanbox. I don't know one person who uses that site.

redcatt63 is around here somewhere......

I have been getting those also. Some are from people I know, but many lately aren't. I have never answered or clicked on any of those FanBox questions. I'm not even sure what FanBox is. That's why I haven't been there.

- retroglide -

Yes, I'm getting all sorts of "So and so has asked you a question on FanBox" emails. I don't know most of them, but now I'm just sending them to my spam folder. Enough's enough. I thought it was only people from your email list that got the questions.

Penny The Wise

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