FanBox

Like many other is see have complained. I too have been receiving bogus emails claiming that I've earned so much money from my postings. I have never made an account with them, I have never heard of them until the emails started, I cannot earn money from postings if I don't even know what postings they are referring to.

If so many are complaining, why do they not have a lower rating? Why can't anything be done about it if they are spamming people?

I want my data removed from their system.

Review: FanBox does not have my approval. I filled out the credit charge info but I did not fill out the second page. FanBox attempted to bill me anyway. I have email records if you want them.Desired Settlement: Delete me.

Business

Response:

Dear [redacted],We appreciate you taking the time

to communicate that there are ways we can optimize our product. We appreciate

all of our customers and are always seeking to improve.

According to our records, an

account was created on FanBox back in 2011. Our system shows ad credits were activated to generate earnings. Using ad credits to generate earnings entails a monthly processing fee. We have refunded your payments. No further charges will be applied to your account.

Your account has been

deleted. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our

mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our

users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go into effect.

If you have any questions or

concerns, please contact us at [email protected].

Review: Almost a year ago I was emailed by a friend saying that he was online and 'friended' me to this company,fanbox,then fanbox kept emailing me saying that I had 'earned' revenue from going online with my [redacted] acct.that I use to see my family and friends that moved across the nation.Thinking this was questionable after six months and kept getting emails telling me to respond to my ever growing earnings,I 'contacted', or rather a fanbox rep.(?) emailed me to fill out my forms.After exchanging emails and told that I should wait to 'cash out' until the 90 days since starting the 'scheme' would give me more earnings.Since the double talk involved me filling the completed form,sans bank card,I was told to wait until a year would be milestoned in order to 'cash out' with the much needed monies having the power to increase.Yesterday evening I wished to see the account that I had, but in order to 'cash out' that last bit of info,i.e. cc was needed.I had tried to contact anyone who could assist me, three times I had entered a query with a fanbox rep. although on his site it had showed he was chatting online with another,he refused to answer my email,thus after 1 hour,and being late at night I gave up.This morning an email was waiting for me from the rep.to parapharse,the man said that I needed to find my own 'mentor' online and that he could not give me any new info as he was not privy to my account,whereas last email I had sent before retiring stated that same info.:that I had 'accumulated' nearly 2,000usd in my acct and that I wished to 'cash out',filled in the info needed to get the remainder what was left,but then I was informed that ipl had eaten it all,and to keep waiting to earn something back,as the 90 days was gone,the next 30 days I could reinvest, and that the next 60 days from inception I could buy services.All I wanted to do was to get the one third of the daily 'earned'I was told was left, but that was totally gone.I tried to chat,but was ignored.I will be stopping bank charges asap.Desired Settlement: Since I now believe this is a Ponzi scheme, I wish the promised earnings, of one third the total I was promised earlier.I was lied to at the first half way mark, six months, then ignored when the question as to where the monies I was promised had gone at the near year mark. Also I hope that the bank can stop any 'unauthorized' fees to be pulled from my account by Fanbox.If not, then a full refund will be asked.

Business

Response:

You have secured your account with a credit card or PayPal account; therefore, no charges have been applied to your credit card or PayPal account. Furthermore, no charges will be applied to your PayPal or credit card since you have not linked a payment source to your FanBox account. Your earnings are available in your FanBox bank balance. Since you have utilized part of your IPL limit to generate those earnings, you must pay back the amount you utilized. You can use your fully matured earnings to do this. You currently have around $500 in fully matured earnings and over $1800 in earnings that are still maturing. However, you have not paid back the IPL funds you utilized to generate those earnings. This must be done in order to cash out. Also, you have not paid several IPL processing fees. These must be paid in order to keep the earnings you have generated. If you would like more information in regards to your currently balance, please contact us at [email protected].

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and have determined that this proposed action would not resolve my complaint. For your reference, details of the offer I reviewed appear below.

Regards,

The 'business' emailed stating that I had 'earned' monies for the 'cash out', I attempted to close the said business with Fanbox by 'cashing out', yet still the amount available was zero according to my sheet of activity, I wish to end this charade after I saw that if my 'IPL" account drops any lower that they would take out monies from my credit card, this is unacceptable. Because the way that Fanbox conducts it's ways of obtaining the monies to pay their top people resembles a Ponzi scheme I wish not to contribute to their 'business' methods. The 'person' that they claimed help me join their enterprise disavows any knowledge of such and wishes that I follow through in disengaging myself from this 'business'. If they can guarantee that my personal account is not compromised and I am not involved in their schemes any longer I will not press on. Otherwise, I will be put in a difficult position of doing so

Business

Response:

Your IPL account has been turned off so you will no longer utilize IPL funds to generate earnings. You are not required to pay any fees if you do not wish to keep your IPL-based earnings. If you would like to delete your FanBox account, please let us know.

Business

Response:

Hi [redacted],

Here as update on her account:

She has generated $1792.47 in earnings from using her IPL limit (ad credits) to generate those earnings. Because she has not paid any IPL processing fee or what she has utilized in IPL funds, she is unable to cash out.

We have gone ahead and closed her account. She no longer owes any IPL processing fee. All processing fees have been canceled as well as her earnings.

We have removed her email address from our mailing lists as well.

Please let me know if anything else is needed to close this case.

Best Regards,

FanBox.com

Review: my friend set up an account withFan BOX without my permission and with out all my information.they are charging me penalties and I don't have any money.I politely asked them to close my account and they gave me directions to do so.when I tried it did not close my account.I don't have a bank account and they are trying to get money out me which I don't have.I want this account closed.thank you [redacted]Desired Settlement: I just want them to close my account

Business

Response:

Your account has been deleted. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go into effect. Your IPL account has been terminated; therefore, you will not be billed with any processing fees. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Review: I do not know how you guys got my account. but I had two charges that I am not familiar with. I tried to call but keep getting message.I need to know what to do I never herd of you guys, and somehow I have an accout with your company. Please adviseMy email is [redacted].com###-###-#### is my contact Thank You[redacted]Desired Settlement: Refund the two amount that was charged on 5.80 5/13/2013 and 12.00 on 5/7/2013

Business

Response:

Hello,

Your account has been

deleted.

We have immediately

unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer

receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72

hours for this to go into effect.

Your IPL account has

been terminated; therefore, you will not be billed with any processing fees. A refund of all charges will be issued to your credit card within 2 - 4 business days.

We apologize for any

inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Business

Response:

You had secured your account using a PayPal or credit card. This authorized payments to be made to your credit card or PayPal account if your balance were to fall below $2.00. You were billed for using IPL funds to generate earnings.

Review: I keep getting an email daily saying that I have earned money since I started utilizing IPL (which I have no idea what that means) But they are requesting my account informatio to charge me a due that I have no idea why and as of yesterday I recieved a email giving me a noticed Penalty for not paying something ( I have no ideal).. Each part of the email that you press to try to read is requiring information on billing me. I delete the messages daily and receive another one each day.Desired Settlement: I don't know if they are charging my cell phone bill as of yet. But I would like them to leave me along.

Business

Response:

Your account has been

deleted.

We have immediately

unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer

receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72

hours for this to go into effect.

Your IPL account has

been terminated; therefore, you will not be billed with any processing fees. No charges have been applied to your cell phone or any type of payment source.

We apologize for any

inconvenience this may have caused.

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution would be satisfactory to me. I will wait for the business to perform this action and, if it does, will consider this complaint resolved.

Regards,

This Fanbox started sending me email that I earned something ( in US$) from what they are describing and showing to be very Vague and difficult to understand. Then they regularly send Emails saying that my earnings have grown.. and so on. They required me to register thru Pay{Al in order to obtain my earnings, but behold - they are asking me to register my credit card. Afetr a while, they hay have started to charge me on my credit card, last month $8.03 and this month, $22.57. So I already disputed this and asked my Credit Card Bank to Block my Card and never to pay this Hoax Fanbox! If you respond to their email, it wont be received, because they hid their email address. Hoax! Hoax! SCam!

Review: Received various emails stating that I owe money for "IPL", I have never signed up or ask for anything to do with this company. They keep stating that I owe them a monthly fees and it keeps increasing every month. I have found no way to get in touch with them until I found them here.Desired Settlement: Stop this company! Thank you

Business

Response:

According

to our records, you had created an account on FanBox back in 2011. Your account

was pre-approved to automatically earn from using our credit program called

"IPL" or I'll Pay Later. Due to this activation, your account accrued

several processing fees.

Your

account has been deleted. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail

from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from

FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go

into effect.

Your IPL

account has been terminated; therefore, you will not be billed with any

processing fees. All IPL processing fees you have received have been canceled. If you have any questions, you may contact us [email protected] or at [email protected].

Review: They are charging me over $500 and says my account has earned about $254.85 as of today. I have never signed up for an account with Fanbox, and I cannot reach them either by email or by phone to resolve the problem! Please help!!Desired Settlement: I want to have full refund of what they have charged me, and for them to cancel my account that I never signed up for.

Business

Response:

Your account has been deleted. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go into effect. Your IPL account has been terminated; therefore, you will not be billed with any processing fees. You did not link a credit card or PayPal account; therefore, no charges were ever applied. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. You may contact us at [email protected].

Review: Hello,After reading all the other complaints there is no need to tell the whole story about fanbox. I can see you already know what they do.Today, I recieved a $25.00 charge on my paypal account from fanbox for no reason.I have disputed the charge because today is the first time I have ever heard of fanbox.These people are crooks[redacted]Desired Settlement: I want the $25.00 charge reversed and hopefully jail time for the owners of this company since they have clearly scammed numerous people already.

Business

Response:

We can certainly issue you a refund. In order to process your request, please provide the email address linked to your FanBox account.

Business

Response:

The account was created by clicking a link within an invitation email they received from a friend, family member, or acquaintance.

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and have determined that this proposed action would not resolve my complaint. For your reference, details of the offer I reviewed appear below.

Regards,

I am not satisfied with this response. this is fanbox's standard response and I don't believe it. I got my refund but action needs to be taken to put these people out of business. I did not opt out of an email as suggested. this is a scam and you and I both know it. No one should have access to my funds without my approval.

Business

Response:

We still have not received your email address linked to the FanBox account. Please respond with the email address so we can close your account. You received a charge

because your IPL Processing Fee was due and you had protected your account;

thus, authorizing payments to be made from your credit card or PayPal account

if your balance falls below $2.00. In order to stop further charges, please provide the email address linked to your FanBox account.

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and have determined that this proposed action would not resolve my complaint. For your reference, details of the offer I reviewed appear below.

[I refuse to give fanbox any information. They will attempt to charge me again. You can close this case]

Regards,

Business

Response:

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have

caused. We were unable to locate any account with the information your

provided. In order to process your request, we need the email address linked to

the FanBox account or to the PayPal account that was charged. If you have any

questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Sincerely,

FanBox Support

Review: asking me to pay my application bill and I don't know about itDesired Settlement: just don't send me any e mail

Business

Response:

We have immediately

unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer

receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72

hours for this to go into effect.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Review: Several months ago, I received an email to view photographs posted by one of my close friends on a website called Fanbox.com, and assumed it to be similar to flickr.com, When I went to their website, I was requested to register, which I started to enter information until it looked suspicious, then immediately exited the website. Recently, I received a couple more emails from them to view my friend's photos. Not realizing that my data was previously captured, I recently began receiving emails about having earnings, and now one today about owing something called an IPL fee. I did not authorized anything, and want nothing to do with this company. This company appears to be a scam. I attempted to contact them, but to their convenience it is impossible to reach a human, which makes them appear even shader.Desired Settlement: I want them to remove my information from their database, stop contacting me, and dissolve any financials that they feel they owe me (earnings of $1095.76 questionable and unauthorized) or vice versa (IPL fee of $101.78 again questionable and unauthorized). There is no way on earth that I am divulging any personal financial information to these people. In addition, I would like some form of confirmation that this issue is resolved.

Business

Response:

We are sorry to hear you

were unable to reach us.

We received your voice mail

on 11/22/2013 and responded to you on 11/22/2013 with a confirmation email (ticket

#[redacted]). Your

account was deleted on 11/22/2013 and your email address was removed from our

mailing lists.

Your account was approved

to automatically earn from using our program called "IPL" or “I'll

Pay Later.” Due to this activation, your account accrued several processing

fees. Your IPL account has been terminated; therefore, you will not be

billed with any processing fees. All IPL processing fees you have received have

been canceled.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at

[email protected].

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution would be satisfactory to me. I will wait for the business to perform this action and, if it does, will consider this complaint resolved.

Regards,

I have been on FanBox since 2011. I thought it would be a legit site where I could earn while blogging and just doing the simple things to make money. But since there has been this "ultimatum" to join "I'll Pay Later" or you will have to wait to another 30 days since your last earning to get my Cashout, FanBox has been absolutely ridiculous and scandalous. They have held my $637 hostage for most of the year now because it has been more than 3 months that I wanted to even cash some of it out.

I've earned that money that they have and I want it all back. They can have whatever was made when I was under "I'll Pay Later" because that money is all theirs. Furthermore, Success Coaches have been giving me the run around on why FanBox is "sooo good for earning money" without backing up their claims. The site still looks like it's in Beta and is using some of Facebook's appearances on its own site.

Blogging should not be this crazy. Blogging should not be a scam.

Review: I started receiving unsolicited emails 5 to 6 months back from "fan box". I did not sign up of this website, nor any of my friends refer me. There unsubscribe button does not work . They asked me to verify my [redacted] account then I was charged 53.04 for what? Emails to them are returned undeliverable and the phone messages are never returned on how and why and what I purchased. They state I have over $3000.00 in this account and I did what for it? and know nothing about this Please helpDesired Settlement: give me my money back and mark this business as a scam

Business

Response:

Hello,

We appreciate you taking

the time to communicate that there are ways we can optimize our product. We

appreciate all of our customers and are always seeking to improve.

We received a voicemail from you and attempted to call you back without any success. We also sent you an email as well without any response. According to our records, an account was created on FanBox back in

2010 through an invitation you received from either a family member, friend, or

acquaintance. This is the reason you have been receiving emails from FanBox.

Each email you have received from FanBox provides an option to opt out of our

services.

Your account has been

deleted back on 12/10/2015. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our

mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our

users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go into effect.

Furthermore, we have issued you a refund of $58.24 back to your [redacted] account. No further charges will be applied. We apologize for any

inconvenience.

If you have any

questions or concerns, please feel free to contact our account manager directly

by sending an email to [redacted]@corp.fanbox.com.

Best Regards,

FanBox Support Team

Review: I keep getting emails from this company saying my fanbox account, which they state has a few thouseand dollars, is unprotected and looking for information to protect my account. I have never set up or had any contact with this business and want the emails to stop. I don't want to click on any link in the email, even the unsubscribe button, which I read does no good. anyway.

I appreciate any help in getting these emails to stop.

Thank you.

[redacted]Desired Settlement: I just want the emails to stop.

Business

Response:

Hello,We appreciate you taking the time

to communicate that there are ways we can optimize our product. We appreciate

all of our customers and are always seeking to improve.

According to our records, an

account was created on FanBox back in 2011. This is why you have been receiving emails from us.

Your account has been

deleted. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our

mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our

users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go into effect.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Account Manager at [email protected] Regards,FanBox Support Team

Review: Fanbox repeatedly sends unsolicited emails requesting my financial information. Emails claim I have earned hundreds or thousands of dollars through ads that they would like to transfer to me. Any account in my name with this company was opened without my consent or knowledge and I have never knowingly requested information or services from them.Desired Settlement: Delete any account or accounts in my name, remove all my contact and financial information from Fanbox servers. Cancel all earnings and service fees pending or charged to my account. Cease any and all contact.

Business

Response:

Dear [redacted],We appreciate you taking the time

to communicate that there are ways we can optimize our product. We appreciate

all of our customers and are always seeking to improve.

Your account has been

deleted. We have immediately unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our

mailing lists. You will no longer receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our

users, but please allow up to 72 hours for this to go into effect.

If you have any questions or

concerns, please contact us at [email protected] Regards,FanBox Support Team

Review: I joined fan box ion march 16, 2013. I have built up a good about of money in what they call "boosting". The only money they release is for me to buy and purchase more ads for the company. I have yet to get any of the "so-called" money they keep informing me that I've earned. They say I'm not making as much as I should be because my account isn't protected. The only way to protect my account is by paypal or bank account. They take your ipl processing fees out automatically each month from your account. I want to know if this is just a big scam to get ahold of your banking information?Desired Settlement: The money they say I have earned.

Business

Response:

We appreciate you taking the time to communicate that

there are ways we can optimize our product. We appreciate all of our customers

and are always seeking to improve.

Back in March of 2013 you agreed to use the IPL limit

granted to your account. Your IPL limit is a set of ad credits that can be used

to generate earnings. Once you accepted your IPL limit, a boost portfolio was

activated to begin spending your ad credits. Using these ad credits entails a

monthly processing fee.

Currently, you have your IPL limit turned off, meaning, you

are currently not using ad credits to generate earnings. Instead you are using

your earnings to spend on ads to generate more earnings. Your balance has

earnings that have not yet fully matured.

In order to cash out earnings, the following must take

place:

1.

Earnings must be fully matured (90 days after

the earning month)

2.

All IPL processing fees must be paid (your

account has been billed with fees which have yet to be paid)

3.

All ad credits utilized to generate those

earnings must be paid back (you can use your earnings to pay these back)

Have you reviewed the current status of your earnings? If

not, click here http://posts.fanbox.com/34g76

to learn how you can check your earnings.

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Earnings must be fully matured (90 days after

the earning month) in order to be considered for cashing out. Learn how the

maturity cycle works here: http://www.fanbox.com/VideoCenter/VideoPopup.aspx?video=AzRoWUVRRQ-7elBGV4psdg2<...⇄ />
Review your

IPL account page to see what your current balance is. Because the IPL you have

utilized comes from the community pool, all IPL funds that were used to

generate your earnings must be paid back in full in order to cash out.

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Click here http://posts.fanbox.com/h6956 to view

a tutorial on how to read your IPL account.

If you would like more information about the current status

of your account and earnings, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and have determined that this proposed action would not resolve my complaint. For your reference, details of the offer I reviewed appear below.

Regards,

Business

Response:

If you would like any other information in regards to your account and earnings, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We are more than happy to assist you.

Review: This company debited over $900 from my business checking account without my authorization. My business partner and I had never heard of this company before. On April 1, they made 12 separate debits totalling over $900. on April 3, They made 12 separate credits returning all the money they took. However, by this point, they had already dropped our account below what was in the account and we were charged $179 and sent to collections for it. These transactions were not authorized and should never have taken place. Neither my parter nor I authorized these charges and have NEVER given out our account information. This is a very new business that we started and we have not done enough business yet to have given out our information.Desired Settlement: I would like the $179 that we were charged to be returned to us. As a new start up business, we cannot afford hits like that, especially fraudulent ones.

Business

Response:

We were unable to locate an account with the email address you provided. Is there another email address we can look up for you to process your request?

Review: Hello my name is [redacted] S. [redacted].I received the email below from FanBox after a friend introduced me. I read that people were actually getting checks on the website. I authorized this ONE payment. I called and asked when I would receive my funds (i thought it would probably be less than $1600). They said I need to buy something with IPL money, but that I couldn't because I hadn't paid for the IPL (it was very confusing). I decided not to participate with FanBox, and to my shock they've been withdrawing funds from my account twice a month. I addressed this with them, still they take money from my account without my permission. I've called the 1-800 and the other phone# and left messages with no response. If you notice in the email, below it talks about Auto Account Protection; I DID NOT authorize and auto withdrawls. I want them to stop accessing my account and return ALL my money. PLEASE Help Me!!!!If you need them, I also have the email conversations of my shock and protest, when they initially starting taking money from my account without authorization. They have the point of contact names on it.See copy of email below.[redacted]Hi [redacted], So far, you have earned $1,653.72 since you started utilizing IPL. Watch the video to learn about IPL. Your November IPL processing fee remains due. You'll want to pay your processing fee immediately to protect your account and money. Please note that if your processing fee has not been paid by Jan. 8, 2013, a penalty will be added to your processing fee. Amount due if paid before Jan. 8, 2013: $31.08Did you know? You can protect your earnings and avoid manual payments by setting up Automatic Account Protection. Its a free service![redacted]Thanks in advance for your assistance!!Desired Settlement: Stop accessing my account without authorization, and refund all my money.

Business

Response:

Hello,

Your account has been

deleted.

We have immediately

unsubscribed your e-mail from all of our mailing lists. You will no longer

receive e-mails from FanBox or any of our users, but please allow up to 72

hours for this to go into effect.

Your IPL account has

been terminated; therefore, you will not be billed with any processing fees. A refund of all charges applied to your credit card will be issued within 2 - 4 business days.

We apologize for any

inconvenience this may have caused. Feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Business

Response:

You began earning money from using IPL starting in January. You were charged for two separate IPL processing fees in March since previous fees had not been paid for. By securing your account with a credit card or PayPal account, you had authorized payments to be automatically charged to your credit card or PayPal account to maintain your FanBox bank balance.

Review: Taking money out of my credit card account without my permissionDesired Settlement: Get my money back

Business

Response:

Hello,