Fanbox They set up a fake account and keep sending emails saying there is money that I must protect by giving them all my personal information San Diego California
This company is trying to get personal and financial information from me by claiming that I have money in an account which I never established When I tried to send an email response to them from my Droid asking what it was about it created a problem with my outgoing email and now I am getting a "message not sent" alert every 2 minutes on my phone. These people are seriously bad news and dangerous. I would encourage people to delete all their emails without even reading them. This is a really bad problem.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Doug
Temperance,Michigan,
United States
empowr/fanbox much worse since 2013
#4REBUTTAL Owner of company
Fri, November 17, 2017
It was bad enough in 2013! Steadly got worse as time went by. I doubt that $3,000 was profit. There are expeses. If you got items sold in the
market place you had to have the item already or bought it. Then paid for shipping it. If auther was a coach then they got paid for conningb others
to spend their hard earned money. Plus they could have paid out more than than they got back in fees. Since 2013 imany are not getting paid. Some are.
Doug
Temperance,Michigan,
United States
Empow has money in an account for you
#4Consumer Comment
Fri, November 17, 2017
There is money in that account that is started automatically in the form of a loan that has to be paid back at 2.9% amonth = about 35% a year.
And they want your financials so they can takle that fee out. You agree by validating your paypal or CC. During the 90 days the loaned out money earns some but not high enough to ever pay the amount they charge in fees.
Immoral, unethical but not a scam because there are people that do get paid if they paid up front and then they get 1.35% a month. Or they get paid for being a coch and it is determined by how much they can con you into spending on services such as power level and options.
If empowr is even payin any more! Most go the borrwing route not realizing how it all works and think it is all profit and does not have to be paid back.
Cindy
Indianapolis,Indiana,
FanBox Is Not Bad News
#4Consumer Comment
Tue, July 23, 2013
I have been a member of FanBox for two years next month. The site is not a phishing site trying to get people's financial information. Just this year alone I have cashed out close to $3000 which was paid directly to my Paypal account each time I requested a cash out of my earnings...which obvisouly are real as the money was sent to me.
When someone clicks on a link that was on a Facebook page, twitter or an email and they go to the site the system begins a profile. (This is no longer the case as the site is now closed except by invitation only). It is up to that person whether or not they want to complete the profile and remain a member. If you don't want to be a member it is very simple to just delete the account, there is information on how to do so in the learning center.
If this site were a rip off or dangerous I would not still be a member and I am pretty sure I would not have been able to earn and cash out as I have over the last few months. It takes time and effor to do well on the site as well as learning how the site works. There are also free Success Coaches offered to every member to help them learn and navigate the site, coaches are members of FanBox who have gained some success and want to help others do the same.
I am one myself and regardless of what people who have not taken the time to learn about the site or those who have gotten upset because they were not given 'free money for nothing' say, I love this site and again, if it was truly a rip off I would not have received anything from the site for earnings I have gained from blogging, as well as the other features on the site.
By the way my credit card and Paypal are attached to my account as well as my phone number and I have not had any problems or issues arise from it.