Chucks Blog

For the past few months I have been receiving annying junk messages from the domain ‘fanboxnotes.com’ After a few quick Google searchs I determined that while there is a fanbox website, it seemingly uses spam tactics to sign up members.

I also discovered that by in any way using the fanbox link automaticly creates you an account on the site; what ever happened to real registration!?! And to make things even more annoying it supposedly takes at least 24hrs to remove the account.

While I know it is generally a BAD idea to click on links in spam messages, I figured the first message I got was legit due to a friend of mine signing up. Now it appears I have alot of fan’s on the site, according to the several messages a day, which is rather annoying.

I don’t know if unsubscribing yourself from the site would work, for most spam messages it does the opposite, but since it was a ‘legit’ domain I gave it a try. I don’t really care whether it works or not — if it doesn’t I’ll just block the domain anyway.

Anyway, here’s key headers from the e-mail’s:

Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of NOREPLY@fanboxnotes.com designates
 208.69.97.54 as permitted sender) client-ip=208.69.97.54;

Precedence: bulk

X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE,
	MIME_HTML_ONLY,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=3.1.7-deb3

EDIT: See here for a followup to this post.