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What Can You Do to Stop Junk Faxes?

Posted by Cliff on from the as-if-spam-and-telemarketers-weren't-bad-enough dept.

olddoc asks: "I am having a growing problem with junk faxes. Unlike email, it costs me money when I get a fax so junk faxes really tick me off. A while ago, I gave my number to a removal number and now I am getting more junk faxes than ever." What options are there for dealing with this? If you've also had this problem, what did you do and how effective was it in stopping unwanted faxes?

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  1. Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fax them back with a bunch of black paper taped into a loop.

  2. PC FAX for receiving. by ViXX0r · · Score: 5, Informative

    At our office we turned off auto-answer on the fax machine proper and set up FAX receiving on a PC plugged into the FAX line to receive them. Now all the incoming faxes are just saved in the computer. The ones we want we print out, the spam you can just delete.

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  3. Get Rid of it. by Drexus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We had junk faxes to the amount that it represented 90% of what it was used for. Then we got rid of it. If they can't email it, mail it, or call us. Then we don't want their business.

  4. Can't Get Rid of it. by binaryspiral · · Score: 5, Informative

    Faxes are official legal copies of documents. Email attachments are not.

    Anyone who has to send a signed or legal documents quickly - a fax is the only option unless you send it via courier.