it's a good news for fanbox community to protect our account being hacked. thanks for sharing.

This is called Phishing. People must be aware of it ...!

Everyone should be aware of this! This is important info to protect yourself.

Sorry to hear that you were hacked. The person sent those links to me yesterday at about 2:13pm , I was kin to read from you but sceptical about the links, it didn't make much sense to me. So I decided to read Arlene mail, behold it was the fake you so, I deleted.

THank you for making everyone realize the security risks and the helpful advice to avoid such a horrible situation! ...it is so wonderful the Fanbox team was so supportive in getting you back on track :) Hope you have lots of Hacker-Free continued success!!

I am glad you got your account back to its original status, when I got your email and it said dear I knew. Not to respond since you would not say but bro or brother. I am glad that FanBox worked so quickly solve the problem for you.

hi my sweet SC - it is dis-heartening to note that this had to happen with you.
thanks for sharing the issue and the steps to follow, dos and donts, etc. once your account is HACKED !!

all the best and habby blogging and coaching
Sanjoy = enJoy !!

Ohhh that was sad, But glad to know you got it back and retrieve everything.
That's true those who uses computers outside must be sure to log out before leaving. and following those links that aren't sure of.
Nice post for awareness.

This is a good blog awareness Ben. After reading the comments left here someone not only you got the same message 12 hours ago? You said this happened on May 13th then WHY were others getting this same email just 12 hours ago? Shouldn't this person have been blocked and banned from FanBox once you found out who it was or where the email was coming from?

I did not get this one but have gotten other similiar messages to click here, click this link. I know better to do that and while it might sound like an official email from FanBox it DID NOT come from an official at FanBox therefore it is not real. Fanbox sends messages from the FanBox team and you know it is from them as you can not reply back as well. And if it was true FanBox would of most likely have did their own official blog on it. Therefore it was a scam email.

I am sorry this happened to you and others but we all must be careful with this clicking on links that lead us out of the FanBox Community. If anything when in doubt check the link on your own but NOT through your FanBox account. I just did that the other day to take some spelling test and lo and behold it was not from FanBox so I quickly got out of it and I told that person. I know that people leave links like that in there blogs as well and I do believe that is where I was led to and this is not a good thing.

I have been here only 6 weeks now and my inbox at times is full of junk!! I have learned to delete many of these if someone either is begging for me to read their posts or directing me to a page that reads - Post Deleted, etc. Then I have to spend time telling this person this and wasting my precious time on nonsense messaging back and forth. With all that is going on with Identity Fraud with the IRS and people hacking into computers you always have to stay on top of these computer situations at all times. They also have a new think called Safe Lock as well.
I thank you for this blog Ben and hopefully everyone remains vigilant with this and you get everything sorted out. I am happy to hear FanBox gets right on these things as well. Great blog Ben!

omg ...... three days back my facebook account was hacked and i am still broken over it ...... 99% sites to which i am a member , i use facebook connect so i have to change all of their user and passes ...... i even dont remeber which sites i have used fb connect and all but i am sure the hacker has all my info with him/her .

It was a person from israel ..... god how on earth did he got my passes i dont even remember ...... still trying to pick hints and trails and few crumbs but no use :(

Great awareness blog Nicky and i thank you for posting it.You couldn't have done better to save your account from being hacked because the hacker had the idea of using Johnny cash-a trusted person to get to people's accounts.

The internet is not as safe as it used to be before because hackers are becoming more sophisticated in their online activites. That is why I would strongly advice anyone registering on any site never to use their social networking accounts directly to register .

Thanks for giving great information. The same thing happened with but Google prevented me and said changed my password so I immediately changed my password.

Thanks for sharing your story Ben now everyone can learn from it :-)

Very important advice for protecting account .
Thanks for you told us your experience.

glad to hear this is over. I think it's time FanBox set up better security measures within the site as well. Perhaps automatically unlogging anyone who's been logged for a set length of time or when the system detects inactivity while a user is still logged in or something to that effect. A secondary password or a pin perhaps, when interacting in the "market place," and so on. Anyway, what you've shared here is very alarming and we thank you for passing on the info.

thx for sharing this issue.....^_^ You help us proud and believe to this site BEN! FanBox always tries the best for all users. Yup learn from the mistakes and be aware! not all people is good in this world :)

Thank God for the safety of your account.It is the Lord's doing.Thanks for the useful and informative alert message.It is a big lesson to everyone in here.

wow... Its mean you got problem same , Last friday my husband Syed Hussain account has been hacked by any hacker, He reported to Fanbox support service.He already has been approved as SC one two days before.Very sad momments which I heard, my husband. You are lucky, and we are still waiting of Fanbox activation. I no have any such experience , but still hopes with Fanbox authority to activate my husband account. I also approached with his Ex-Success Coach and request. Will see,.
I will say more here, please all of community of Fanbox do care in this part.
Thanks for your information, nice post.

Dear friend I am so upset when know that your account was hacked. And now i am so happy when again i see that your account is active again.

Thank you Jenny. You give me good Suggestion. I can save my account. If I follow the instruction mentioned above. Thanks again. I like your post. And Also I appreciate you on you hard working . Weldon Jenny

Luckily I did not encounter this problem.
Thank God that your account is safe now.
And salute to Fanbox team for doing a good job.

so bad! fanbox must dealt with that

I'm glad you were able to learn from this experience, despite your ordeal. It's great knowing FanBox was already aware of the issue and that they are working on getting your account restored. Thanks for sharing your experience because now a lot more people are aware...

Thanks Arlene to warn us!!

Thank you Ben for the information - -and for helping everyone learn from your experience - so they don't need to learn the hard way!

Thanks to your post, I just posted this: http://posts.fanbox.com/xczp4

Ben : Thanks for sharing this information - infact few months back my Gmail account was also HACKED ( the Hacker also got into my FanBox account which was suspended/flagged and recently my Yahoo account was about to be Hacked, but a friend helped me to save it from hacking ) .... you've correctly advised that we should try to change PASSWORD every month or 2 months time.

Sorry to hear about your account being hacked. Glad Fanbox was able to help you out.

Wow... Thank you for the reminder Ben

Thanks for Sharing your personal experience with us. Its very helpful.

To everyone on my fans list if you have not taken the time to check out this blog you really should as there are some really bad people out here that will take advantage of all of your hard work. Please help all of us at FanBox Stop them from doing what they did to my friend!

You shouldn't feel bad; it can happen to the best of us. Another thing, whenever you get messages like this you should not click the link and sign into anything/nothing. If needs be, you should open a separate browser and enter the site you are a member of web address and sign in from your site's official home/sign-in page. The hacker maybe closer than we think, eh.

thanks for the info.

nice post

thanks for posting this information for creating awareness about hacking.

Glad to hear FanBox was on top of it after you alerted them. Kudos FanBox and thanks for letting us know what happened to you so that we can be aware!

Thank you for sharing, this very important to all fanboxer knowing.

Thanks for sharing your experience because now we will know to be aware of this and we can all do our best to not go through what you went through. Glad things are heading back to normal for you.

Nice Experience thanks for shering

thanks for this nice information, this is really very important

Very nice post dear.

Thanks for the reminder.

About a year ago I had my facebook account hijacked after I had failed to logout at an internet cafe. The hijacker sent friendship requests and I love you messages to some strangers to whom I had to apologise.

Early this year, my gmail account was hacked soon after I had searched the web (in vain) for some software. I had signed on to so many sites that Icould not tell which one was the culprit. The lesson was about just how vulnerable I am. I am now less thirsty for strange sites.

Perhaps it is a bad idea to access an account through another: instead of hacking two accounts with different passwords, they only have to hack one and get the other(s) free.

thanks

That does suck I haven't had any of those. Good to know though thanks.

thank for sharing

Informative Post.

Great post