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Firm Pays 6.5 Million for Fax Spamming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

Geopoliticus writes "This article over at the Chicago Tribune tells of a car dealership in St. Louis that will pay up to 6.5 million to people it sent junk faxes to. Now, if we could just get this kind of settlement for all the crap in my inbox I could stay unemployed forever." If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!

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  1. Well then ... by Magus311X · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!

    Still to figure out sendmail.cf, Rob?

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  2. Fax prank by SpelledBackwards · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not quite fax spamming, but my brother read about a great way to get back at someone through their fax machine, especially if they have one of those machines with rolled paper, not individual sheets. Wait until night when the fax machine is unattended. Take about 4 sheets of paper (with lots of black on it if you're feeling particularly evil) and tape them together seamlessly. Insert it into your fax machine, and begin sending. As the first sheet comes through, tape it to the last sheet (which hasn't been fed in yet,) creating an endless loop that keeps cycling through like a multiple page fax. When the person comes to their fax machine the next morning, his toner and paper will have been all used up.

    1. Re:Fax prank by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you wanted to be really bad, place your cat on a scanner and grab an image of it. Then, print that image so that it's life size on a laser printer. (color might be detectable..) Then, fax that through. If it works, you might be able to convince somebody you tried to fax your cat to them. ;)

      (yes, I was inspired by Gary Larson.)

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  3. Being Slashdot... by MongooseCN · · Score: 4, Funny

    I figured someone would have gotten and estimate on the cost of pizza and comics in CmdrTaco's area and calculate the number of spams he recieves every day.


    (Pizza + comics * 2) / 0.25 = # of spams.

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  4. Re:Here's the text of the article.... by Nonesuch · · Score: 3, Funny
    A notice of the settlement was sent -- by fax -- to the 33,000 numbers turned over by the company that did the faxing for the dealership. That company, American Blast Fax of Dallas, is out of business, he said.
    Anybody else see the irony in this?
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