Fanning my box
Does anyone here know anything about a yoke called Fanbox?
Apparently a friend of mine was messing with it a year or two ago and entered my email as a recommendation. That was fair enough. I forgive my friends most things. I got an email from Fanbox saying I had been recommended and inviting me to create an account.
Being of the curious type, I gave myself a username and a password. I sniffed around inside their site, got bored, signed out and forgot all about it.
A while later I started getting emails telling me I had started earning. Fuck that. I hadn’t done anything so how could I be earning anything?
I get those emails regularly now. Nearly every day I get a mail telling me how much I earned the previous day. My account now stands at $2,335.39 and I now risen to rank 67 in Ireland’s top performers.
I thought that sounded like a reasonable lump of cash so I went to withdraw it.
It told me I needed a PayPal account.
Now I have a PayPal account which is damned handy for paying for porn stuff on the Interweb but I wasn’t going to tell them about that as there is a small surplus in there I don’t want to lose. I set up a new PayPal account with nothing in it and told Fanbox about it.
They said they wanted an account that was associated with a credit card.
Fuck that.
One thing I have learned to be wary of is people looking for my credit card information.
So the situation now is that they have a lorry load of cash which they say I have earned but I don’t know how. They say I am quite free to withdraw it but want my credit card details. I have searched their site but can’t make head nor tail of how they work, who they are and what the fuck they are doing paying me loads of dosh which I can’t touch.
Where do I go from here?
Who the fuck are Fanbox?
There are times when I find the Interweb to be really fucking frustrating.
Have you met my friend, Mr. Ponzi.
He's been around a long time and has many relations!
Give 'em yer credit card details and then report back here to tell us. Kind of like a social experiment.
http://www.moneylife.in/article/fanbox-spam-scam-dont-fall-prey-to-the-earnings-mailer/31649.html
Ho kay… Thanks for that. I did have my wee suspicions. Nice little filter applied to my mail account [bounces the mail but not before attaching a virus]. 😈
You need a holiday. Somewhere remote, away from it all that doesn't have the interweb…
Shit! That's a GREAT idea…
[*Now why didn't I think of that?*]
You're not going to believe this, but a stunning Princess from an African Country called 'Bulungi' wants MY help with some financial matters. God knows how she got my e-mail address but the poor girl has millions and the evil Irish banks won't let her open an account here. Can you believe that?
Naturally that brought out the gentleman in me and she promises to be most generous in return for my help. So I whacked off a cheque for her to bribe her local officials but I'll get it back a hundred times over when she transfers her funds into my account.
It's kind of nostalgic too and brought me back to my schooldays when we always used to bring in a penny for "The black babies" I guess those babies are all grown up now!
Crikey, John, that's a coincidence! I just had the same experience, but she's been trying to open a Greek bank account – they must be sisters. It's a good job there are a few of us selfless chaps around, always ready to help a damsel in distress.
That's nothing. I have just received notice of two separate complaints against me from the Merkan IRS.
I also have several letters and emails from the Irish Revenue demanding that I transfer all my accounts into theirs.
FFS, GD, The Irish Revenue have had a drip shoved in to my arm for years. I plan, one day shoving the thing up my arse so they'll only get sh1t
Why would they need your credit card info to pay money into your pay-pal account? Sounds iffy to me. Just had a look at the link, and it doesn't tell you anything (I didn't watch the embedded video). Is there any explanation inside the site about what they actually do? And how all this money is generated?
Like Mr Gammagoblin, I detect Mr Ponzi's finger in this pie…
It was the need for the credit card that rang all my alarm bells. Plus I am always suspicious of anything that tells me I have money owed to me when I haven't done anything [unless a rich old uncle dies, of course]
I haven't heard from them since. Of course that may be because I have diverted all their mails into a bottomless pit.