Neuer Scam kursiert im Internet: Fanbox

- muss ich noch uebersetzen aber ich gehe davon aus dass der Text auch im Emglischen leicht zu verstehen sein sollte ;-)

Has anyone ever heard of a site called Fanbox.com? and is it a legtimate site?

Don’t touch it!

I checked the site and they wouldn’t let me get out again to go to a previous site.
Another user who found this blog by typing ‘fanbox scam’ into Google has posted this: the consequences of making your files and passwords available to the cronies that are running the fanbox site are horrendous. They are obviously trawling address books and sending fake emails which is a pretty good indication that they are crooks.

sms.ac turns into fanbox

When I got the second e-mail from someooone I didn’t immediately recognize, inviting me to answer a question at fanbox, I thought it was one of those irritating invitations from some application I haven’t installed at Facebook.

But when I got the second identical e-mail, I got irritated enough to check it out.

Turns out it’s from fanbox.com, which is a new incarnation of sms.ac, which I’ve blogged about before:

sms.ac abuse

sms.ac continues to send invitations

By now it’s not visibly centered around text messages (which to me looked like a scam that would quickly result in huge cell phone bills if you were unlucky), but rather a desktop application.

But I kinda doubt this person I got the e-mail from actually tried to send me a question. I might find out, because I’ve figured out the e-mail address (which isn’t in the e-mail from fanbox).

I think the same caution goes now that it did before: Do NOT give them the password to your webmail account, if you decide to join. Because they’ll spam your friends to death, and they’ll get angry with YOU for it!

Come to think of it, they’ll most likely get your webmail password no matter what, because this is a desktop application! The point is storing important documents, mail and passwords (presumably, I haven’t actually tried it, but it’s what I’d want to use a desktop app for, if I found one I trusted). Geez, I would NOT trust them enough to use them as a desktop app, based on their history!

Wait, I forgot to include the actual letter I received:

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