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How to Stop Rampant Junk Fax?
Fascist Christ asks: "The company I work for, like many other companies, uses a fax machine. We get an annoying ammount of advertisements by fax and are looking to find an effective way to stop it. We have tried requesting to be removed from the lists, but we get too many to do this every time. One company told me that they get there info from infoUSA. Does anyone have any experience with this or other companies and know how to stop this activity without getting a lawyer involved?" How difficult would it be to set up a fax system that would use caller-ID blacklists before answering the line? At the very least you can block identifiable spammers by something that's harder to change than their email address: their phone number.
Use a computer based fax machine. Then only print out the ones you want to print out.
That's right, if your in the good ol USA, you get $500 per each violation in civil penalities after the FCC gets it's fine. Junkbusters.org has info on this and links to the complaint pages and contact info at the FCC.
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eFax.com Just got fined $24Million for doing this. It was on
Do a search in the article archive next time before wasting time posting.
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Change your number.
Tell the people you want to fax you. Change your ads etc.
Set up Hylafax. to retrive your faxes and notify you by email when they come int.
By default fax programs use tiff files which are not very web friendly. Most people prefer pdfs which is why the fax2pdf project exists.
With a little bit of effort you can set up a machine that retrieves all your faxes and delivers them by email. You print only the ones you want, delete, or archive the rest.
the best way to get back at them if they wont take you off the lists, is to kill their toner. All you need to do is take a couple black pages, and tape them together. Let it run through the scan, and have the paper recycle itself through as much as you want. Their fax (if its not a putter), will be out of toner in no time..
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Why are you lawyer-adverse? If you needed a computer system installed, would you eschew those dirty, stinking computer engineers?
Just because they have a reputation for being lying, theiving, conniving lowlifes, lawyers actually do perform a real function. It seems that if you've got a problem with harrassment, it makes sense to seek the advice of a lawyer.
If you're not in California, well, you can still write to your local politicians.
There are a couple of resources for you and your lawyers to get started with. junkfax.org and http://www.junkfaxes.org are two separate websites dedicated to the cause, the second has an excellent mailing list where you'll find advice and experience on going after junkfaxers with the TCPA law.
Bleh!
I broke up with my girlfriend last week, but she keeps calling me anyway. I told her to stop, but now she's showing up at my doorstep and ringing my doorbell every hour. I tried asking her to stop, but she says she loves me and doesn't want to lose me. Does anyone have any experience with this problem and know how to stop this activity without getting a lawyer involved?
You just need two things:
1) A really big black TIFF file
2) A little creativity >:)
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Lottery officials won't know until Thursday how many people played the number or how much money they will collect, said spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman.
Hapeman said "it is not that unusual" for lottery players to select the day's date for their number.
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That's often all it takes, just politely informing them that they are liable for a $500 fine for every unsolicited fax they send you. Most of the time a lawyer will not be needed. If you are in California any civil suit for under $5000 would go to small claims court, where lawyers aren't even allowed, and if one party doesn't show up they automatically lose. That's one of my Dad's favorite things to remind greedy corporations who try to screw him of (the most recent victim was Earthlink). He's probably the most effective person I know in such situations.
Notice that there are no lawyers involved in any of the above steps. The law is involved, however, which is why it's effective. And, if your fax-spammers refuse to stop you can make some easy money on the side, again with no lawyers involved (in CA, anyway).
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If you are clever you should also be able work out a good set of claims against solitications to your cell phone using that section of the USC, too.
Reading the letter of the code, it should also apply to spam, but lawyers seemed to have dropped the ball on that one.
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...to sign up to the Faxing Preference Service. Once you have done this, you appear on the list of people it is unlawful for anyone to fax-spam.
If you're concerned about the amount of tree-ware spamming you through your letterbox then sign up for the Mailing Preference service while you're at it.
Finally, you can also sign up to the Telephone Preference service and foil those legalised war-diallers that phone you up and then hang up on you when they realise they can't connect you to a sales drone.
All things in moderation; including moderation
... 'cause I know Verizon can add a list of accepted phone numbers to any line at a low cost (like 5-10$ a month I think?). Apparently, someone who calls who's not on the list can leave their name, and then you can check through the list of names rejected and okay or reject people permanently. Just tell whomever's faxing you to call first, because you've installed a new system.
I'd bet other providers offer the same.
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If there is a law against Junk Faxing, why are we having such a hard time getting equivilent laws against Junk Mailing....same thing in my mind.
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Great idea.
If you already own Microsoft's Outlook then you have a copy of WinFax Lite on your computer. You can receive faxes directly into Outlook using this product. If you don't already own that product, or you prefer something a little bit more robust then you can snag a copy of WinFax PRO 10.0 from Symantec for a MSRP of $99.95. Also, if you don't have a modem then a cheap Lucent-based controller-less "Winmodem" will set you back about $10 - $15. Drivers are available for Linux, too. I'm not sure what program you might use in Linux. I haven't really tried to mess with faxing in that operating system. All prices are in United States dollars.
You said "Junk Mailing" as in the stuff you get from that little box in front of your house :->
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