Fax Spammers

[echnidna]

Its bad enough getting spam on yer pc or phone.
But we even cop spam faxes.

The latest one's from DELL
They give an opt out by calling them on the phone
Why should I spend money to avoid getting unwanted crap.

Just about to log into their website and send an offensive email and I noticed a notebook for $699 with vista loaded (XP optional)
I might think it over a bit before I give em a serve

[ozwinner]

I might think it over a bit before I give em a serve

See, their spamming has worked. :((

If you didnt give them the time of day, they wouldnt spam the next guy.

Al :(

[bsrlee]

Blame Telstra - they sell lists of all known fax numbers to fax spammers. If you complain about this, they have the gall to demand payment not to sell your personal details to the spammers.

[Sebastiaan56]

Make a loop of paper with "please dont do this anymore" about a meter long. Make sure you tape it so it is square. Send it to them on a Friday afternoon, late. If you do it correctly it should run all weekend.

Works for those cheap weekend spammers where they have a return fax,

Sebastiaan

[Cliff Rogers]

I have a neat bit of software with my old HP OfficeJet fax at work that you can train to block faxes, when it recognises a SPAM fax, it happily receives it, wasting the dork's money, & then throws it in the bin without printing it. :D
The only catch is that my PC has to be on at the time but I leave it running 24/7 anyway & then I can use 'Logmein' to check e-mails & faxes remotely. :2tsup:

[echnidna]

Make a loop of paper with "please dont do this anymore" about a meter long. Make sure you tape it so it is square. Send it to them on a Friday afternoon, late. If you do it correctly it should run all weekend.

Works for those cheap weekend spammers where they have a return fax,

Sebastiaan

RIPPER

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[kiwigeo]

Make a loop of paper with "please dont do this anymore" about a meter long. Make sure you tape it so it is square. Send it to them on a Friday afternoon, late. If you do it correctly it should run all weekend.

Works for those cheap weekend spammers where they have a return fax,

Sebastiaan

A great idea, but only one problem, most fax machines with factory default settings wont send or accept long faxes. From memory the default length of page setting for most fax machines is less than 1 metre. Used to encounter this problem when trying to fax in wireline log prints from the oil rigs to the client office. To get around the problem requires dicking with the software settings on sending and receiving fax machines.

[journeyman Mick]

Send a fax in return, stating that you are now charging $xx for any unsolicited faxes. State that they will be entering into a legally binding contract to pay you $xx per fax and that by sending you a fax they will be accepting the terms of your offer.:D

Mick

[Waldo]

G'day,

Damn fax spammers, :minigun: 'em I say.

Your phone rings at 11:45 one night, thinking it could only be some sort of emergency family thing you jump bolt upright out off bed and pick up the phone - a fricking fax!

15 minutes later, the same thing. Go down to the office the next morning and it's some :censored2: who has faxed you about the greatest holiday of a lifetime offer. :((

I get Dell, :censored2: off, I use Macs, printer cartridge faxes and holiday ones. Some have phone numbers to ring so I leave a not so friendly message.

I'm thinking about throwing the fax in the bin, except I occasionally get faxes from some clients.

[Wood Borer]

Send multiple black pages so that it chews up their cartridges.

[echnidna]

dunno I reckon multiple endless loops would be more fun

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Is it possible to send faxes via skype? So you can tie up their fax line without needing to pay a multitude of call fees?

Probably not... no HW handshaking. Ah well, 'twas just a thought...

[echnidna]

What about a pc fax program so it just continually sends the same fax

[ozwinner]

What about a pc fax program so it just continually sends the same fax


Thats terrible Murial. :o

I did that many years ago after I bought a truck and within the first coupla days the auto gear box gave in.

The dealer wouldnt have a bar of it, so I sent black pages for weeks, hundreds of them. :U

Al :roll:

[Cliff Rogers]

A bloke in Cairns had problems with a 4WD & after heaps of trips to the dealer under warranty, it still had the problem when the warranty ran out & then they wouldn't fix it for free any more.

He had a sign writer put a message on the canopy that said he wished he had bought a {notherbrand} instead & parked it on the main road right in front of their dealership, locked it up & left it there.

The dealers had to work out who owned it, not hard from the service history, contact him & get him back & make some arrangements to have it sorted out.

The problem went away in a hurry. :D

[soundman]

there have been a number of "Interesting" solutions to fax spam in the past , but you have to be carefull you dont run foul of the nusance provisions of the communications act and get prosecuted yourself.

in the early days of fax when the machines wern't all that flash sending lots of solid black pages could cause the print mechanism to overheat and fail :D
no such luck now.

I had a bloke try the repeated long fax on me once, for money he thaught I owed him. I made one phone call to the right place.
He was threatend with dismissal from his job and thretened with prosecution under the act. And last time I spoke to him was thru my solicitor.
Which from what I hear impressed him no end.:U

I suffer very little junk fax because I don't have my fax number on my business card and I don't fill it in on any forms.
If I give my fax number to anybody, I make it abundantly clear that I do not wish to have any unsolicited material from them at all.
If I do get unsolicited material I make it more than abundantly clear that this is not appreciated and that if they want to send me advertising they should pay for the paper and post it to me.

It also surprises me how many phone calls I get from people asking me for various business details including my fax number.
OH believe me I save my special earfull for data miners.:ranting2:


And waht realy pisses me off is that as a business I can not register my business numbers on the do not call list:~
And talk about vested interest, one of the groups exempt from the act are political parties.:angfire:

now this is something that we should start a letter writing campagn about.

cheers