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Selling something? Here's how to protect yourself

As you may have noticed, Auctions are taking off!

Let's all be on the lookout for fraudsters - anyone looking to take advantage of our community and members.

If you are selling something, here's how to protect yourself:

Fraudsters are looking to hack into accounts, and buy products using other people's money.

Therefore, if you get a message that sounds anything like the following, report it immediately:

  - I purchased your product with my other FanBox account.

  - I purchased your product and I'll send you a message from my other account.

  - I purchased your product, here is my phone number: 555-1234 

  - My other ID was hacked! Please contact me here (on my email address or I.M.) from now on.

  - I just bought your product and I want to pick it up from you in-person immediately.

 

If you hear anything like that, please report it immediately to FanBox's Jonny Mollins

 

Also, whenever someone buys your product, before you ship it or deliver it, if you would like someone at FanBox to give you an opinion about whether your buyer is real or fraudulent, write to Jonny Mollins.


Lastly, please change your passwords to both your FanBox account and your Yahoo mail, Hotmail (or other) account every few weeks.


Auctions have taken off like wildfire -- so let's all be on the lookout for anyone looking to take advantage of the excitement!


Happy Providing! :)

924 Comments


great information

13 months ago

nice tips

10 months ago

Thanx for the info JC

8 months ago

Thanks for the information and the heads up JC!

13 months ago

yeah and i am also feeling that what i gave Ads i am not getting what should be.please check why its so?

8 months ago

Thanks JC. :D

13 months ago

It is a shame that you have these fraudsters always trying to get over... Pigs....Thanks JC....

13 months ago

Thanks Johnny Cash

13 months ago

thank you johnny

13 months ago

Thanks for the info

13 months ago

hi jc, can you tell me more clearly about the shipping of articles available for purchase. Some articles are very interesting for me and bid for it. But on looking carefully those seems to be available for specific reason like USA, Pakistan etc.. Why i am writing is they are marked as shipping to US or any other country. What can happen if i am the winner of the article i bid for is marked as the said condtion?

13 months ago

It's wise to be aware of these fraudsters. A lot of people try to take advantage of a good thing, everyone needs to read this! Thanks for the warning JC!

13 months ago

Thanks JC for this awareness. My account was also on risk, but google saved my account and informed me within time. We are receiving messages regularly from fraudster.

13 months ago

nice and informative post

13 months ago

thANKS

13 months ago

Thanks JC for the info....a few months ago even now...I received so many message asking for help...giving their Bank acct.details,Paypal ID...in order to send them amount of money.and some others are asking me to contact them on there personal e-mail add.
I love to help but not like this...I don't want to wasted my money to the persons that I don't even knew him/her.Except Fanbox will notify me that this person is in need of help.

I did reply them...like this: Hi dear, send message to anyone at Fanbox Team..that your asking for help from me...and If fanbox team will give a message for me to help you..then I will help you.But nothing heard from them after that.

JC..please advice.

13 months ago

thank you JC, it's a best warning

13 months ago

Yes, all should be careful if you want to earn money and do not let this happen in FanBox.....*_*

13 months ago

do not drink too much saki, and please Protect yourself, People, Protect YOURSELF!

13 months ago

Paypal very complex problem in transferring money from Fanbox, the scammers have been sending letters on behalf of paypal request for the personal security of paypal account, finally my account is limited and families only.
So Fanbox should review the transportation money through paypal system.
Should link with western union to make the process faster transit and ensure security.

13 months ago

@ Maria. You should always report and forward scam emails/attempts, if it is from paypal, to spoof@paypal.com. Paypal will never ask for that type of information so that should be your first and most frightening indicator, just don't panic. Forward the fraud email or attempt; copy and paste the message source in the forwarded message to Spoof@paypal.com. Western Union transactions maybe a little too expensive for some users and if it works correctly paypal should not be a problem; just verify yourself and they will remove your limit but limitations are there to protect you from those nasty little scammers.

13 months ago

Very nice post

13 months ago

great info!

13 months ago

excellent information and i will contact Johnny as soon as possible

13 months ago

beware of fraudsters

13 months ago

Yup. I will make sure and check good be4 I deliver the product. Thanks JC

13 months ago

excellent input. awsome info

13 months ago

great...thanks JC...now we've got someone to send reports to. @ Mariah: Okela's a point . Paypal responds promptly to reports. I tried that a number of times and they never fail to respond immediately. And, yes, transfers to paypal is faster.

13 months ago

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate this post.

13 months ago

Yeay... Thank you FanBox. Let's keep this site scam free and report all scam activities.

13 months ago

Thanks for the info JC.

13 months ago

Good post JC! Thank you for the info

13 months ago

great information JC and awareness..
by the way JC i want to ask an advice regarding the bidding what if i win the bid and the product is limited only within pakistan and I'm from philippines what I'm gona do?

13 months ago

Great information to save ourselves from any kind of fraud. thanks for info JC

13 months ago

nice ,to aware people about that

13 months ago

I like this Great post and nice information dear JC. i think this is good advice . thanks for sharing fanbox.

13 months ago

thanks for sharing :)

13 months ago

thank you for the info JC

13 months ago

Thank you Johnny Cash for sharing this important information.
One more thing!
When some one buy any product and the seller send the product to the buyer.
So if after receiving the product if the buyer not confirm so what the seller do because the amount is pending and need the confirmation from the buyer.
And if we suppose that the buyer confirm the product first, then the seller send the product so if after conformation, the seller not send the product to the buyer so what the buyer do.

13 months ago

nice question..

12 months ago

Very useful information about FanBox auctions and protecting against frauds.

13 months ago

Thanks JC, I will be carefull.

13 months ago

i think about fanbox '' AUCTIONS ''AGAINST WILL GOOD FOR NEW OLD AND BAD FOR NEWBIES AND MAY THEY NO MONEY BUY THEM OK...THANKS ALL JOHNNY CASH THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION.....NICE POST.....

13 months ago

JC, Thanks for the great advice!!! :)

13 months ago

excellent precautions for fanboxers thanks JC for sharing

13 months ago

Having Auctions and bidding in fanbox is fun...we just hope that
fraud and deceit will not arise here..
Thanks for this great info and advice to be aware on this issue..:))

13 months ago

Nice posting, Thanks for Sharing................................................................CU

13 months ago

OK thank. very nice

13 months ago

thanks nice information.

13 months ago

This is VERY important. Everyone should know this, because there are lots of fraudsters on the site. Watch out everyone!

13 months ago

Thanks JC for the precautions and also for assigning Jonathan to help the users to confirm the buyer's identity to some extent.

13 months ago

We always know we have someone to turn to in FanBox - this time Mr. Jonathan Mollins. Thanks.

13 months ago