Spam Faxes

[echnidna]

I get a bit of spam email but the filters block most of it.

The last few weeks I've had a couple of spam faxes.
How on earth do they figger out yer got a fax?

[fred.n]

Fax off!!!




















































try that setting

[Buzzer]

My fax has a "block number facility".

When the Number appears on the screen it automaticly hangs up.

But for private numbers it doesn't hang up.(junk fax still gets through)

[Bleedin Thumb]

I got mad enough with one the other day that I faxed back the number that they had listed to get taken of their contact list.



The fax wouldn't go through.......no answer

[bsrlee]

Mate of mine has this problem - Telstra is the culprit - they sell these B*m-W*p*s your fax number as a guaranteed live customer with a fax, then you get a steady stream of cr*p - they even sell them a service to to speed up the process of bulk dialing the numbers & forwarding the fax if your line is busy.

Telstra has the gall to demand a additional fee because they will list you as a buisness in the Yellow & White Pages, then demand an additional fee to have you taken off the list they sell to spammers. So much for anti-spamming legislation in Australia - it only applies to computers, not to live telemarketers or fax spammers.

Some years ago in the US, one of the states was proposing to ban spam faxes - some companies sending multi hundred page catalogs. The spam fax industry organised a fax in protest & jammed all the legislators & the state govenors fax machines for a couple of weeks. Strangely, the legislation was quickly passed there and taken up by several other states immediately.

[Barry_White]

The biggest spam fax ripoff is to target companies with 1800 numbers on their faxes as well as spammers ringing 1800 numbers to speak to the manager.