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Why give my friend the Yahoo account? Well, Fanbox is really a perfect example. They use an email phishing system that will request your friend’s login credentials so that your friend can easily invite friends to join Fanbox. What a great service, right? Well, not quite. Fanbox then uses your friend’s credentials to login to your friend’s account and collect all the email addresses of people in the contacts list. They then repeatedly email you “fan requests” and “questions” from supposed members of Fanbox.

What is the point of having another email address? If you are using an email address for public websites, event sign ups, and even for your friends, why is there a need for another email address? Use the other email addresses to divide up the SPAM potential, and make sure you keep a truly personal email address. By dividing up the SPAM, you can get a better idea about which services are SPAM producers. For example, I have a profile on Linked In. I use an email address for that system that receives almost no SPAM at all. This is an indication that Linked In is a website I can trust. On the other hand, the email address I use for other social networking websites receives dozens of SPAM messages a day.

Another great way to reduce your email SPAM is to make sure you don’t open any emails that even remotely look like a SPAM. This is particularly difficult when companies like Fanbox use subject lines like “Christina has asked you a question”. I’d venture to say that almost everyone in America knows at least one Christine, Christina, or Christy. If they hooked you into opening the SPAM with the clever subject line, certainly don’t click on the link!

Of course, if you are reading this article you have likely clicked on a link, which creates your “free profile”, and you are now receiving an abundance of SPAM from Fanbox. The best way to block this SPAM is to get a virtual restraining order against Fanbox. Mark them as SPAM or JUNK in your Inbox for every single message they send you.

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