Keep Your Account Safe
New product annoucement: Keep Your Account Safe
My fellow FanBoxers:
I have a very important announcement to make today.
It involves your FanBox account, your money and your FanBox
Bank.
About 6 weeks ago, you may remember that Johnny made a post
that discussed how many of our FanBoxer friends were getting their
accounts taken over by hackers.
Of course that was completely unacceptable for us as a community
to sit, watch and witness.
Since then, Johnny has made very few new blog posts. Why?
Where did Johnny disappear to?
We have been feverishly (but quietly) developing and implementing a variety of products and technologies to keep your account safe.
Many of the new features & technologies are already live and are
protecting your accounts in ways that I cannot discuss publicly here. (You may
or may not have already noticed some of them).
However, Johnnys prepared to share with you some exciting news
that I am sure you'll enjoy:
A new product launch will soon protect you in ways that were
never before possible.
Soon you will notice something new at the top right of your homepage,
called your Profile
Completeness:
One of the important steps to achieving 100% Profile
Completeness, is to Keep Your Account Safe.
The first step of Keep Your Account Safe is to Add your Mobile
Number.
By adding your mobile number, you can rest assured that if any
large purchases or cash outs are made from your account, you will be notified
via text message (SMS) on your mobile phone.
Adding your mobile number gives you peace of mind: If a hacker ever
takes over your account, they won't get very far!
Also, if you forget your password, you can use your mobile phone
to reset your password and sign back in.
The next step of Keep Your Account Safe is to Create Your
FanBox Bank:
In this step, you are validating your identity.
You can use your credit card to validate your identity and,
soon, you'll also be able to do that using your PayPal or Amazon account.
This step helps the FanBox algorithms decide which accounts are
real, and which accounts are duplicates, suspect or bots (computer generated).
By completing this step, you are letting FanBox know that you
are a real person - and so you will be receiving account protection in a couple additional ways:
1) If you have completed this step, the FanBox algorithms or
staff will never delete your account without contacting you.
(In the past, accounts suspected of fraud were deleted by the
FanBox algorithms without notice - so this is an important step to complete,
because it communicates to FanBox that you are indeed a real person, and so
FanBox will take extra caution with your account).
2) When your FanBox account balance goes below $2 USD due to
your purchases, you can have money transferred automatically from your credit
card, PayPal or Amazon to your FanBox account - to bring it back up to $2.
This is a free service from FanBox, and every time a transfer
like that happens, it communicates to the FanBox algorithms that another
financial institution (such as your credit card, bank, PayPal or Amazon)
continues to support you and provide you an active account.
Johnny cannot stress enough how important this step is - because
it tells the FanBox system that other, larger organizations trust you -- and
you have completed the necessary steps with them to earn that trust.
The next step is answering your Security Question.
By completing this step, you are giving FanBox the answer to a
question that only you should know.
This is important because it helps us identify you as the owner
of your account when you write to us for help.
It also makes it so that only you can reactivate your account,
if you ever have any challenges getting into your account.
These 3 steps will protect you in ways never before possible!
Question: Is it required (mandatory) that everyone complete these 3
steps?
Answer: No. It is not mandatory.
However, new FanBox users (that sign up today or after today)
will NOT be able to purchase things or cash out until these steps are complete.
(This will bring a whole new level of security to the FanBox community).
Old users (those of you that have been around): If you do not
complete these steps, you will still be able to cash out and buy things - but
why risk not protecting your account?
As soon as these new features are live, hurry and achieve 100%
Profile Completeness and protect yourself.
We hope you enjoy more peace of mind via these new features.
Johnny is always there for the best knowledge and help you need
to succeed on fanbox. Goto his posts for more info.
