Unsolicited FAXs

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Every once in a while, I receive an official looking fax asking if I have received unsolicited faxes from various companies. If so, then I am to submit a claim form to be part of a class action law suit.

How do I initiate a class action law suit against the companies that keep sending me these unsolicited faxes asking me to join a suit against companies that send me unsolicited faxes?:mad2:
 
Unplug your fax machine?

Send them back a fax of a black piece of paper. Eventually their toner will run out.
 
Honestly, the fax machines in our offices are dinosours. It is very rare we have occasion to send a fax anymore - Nearly if not all of the things that would have gone via fax go email as a PDF, including scanned items.

Couldn't tell you if we get junk faxes or not. I'm not even sure anyone checks the damn thing anymore.
 
mikegreen said:
Unplug your fax machine?

Send them back a fax of a black piece of paper. Eventually their toner will run out.
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Why would the junk fax senders actually use a fax machine when one can simply send them out from a computer with a modem?


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Maryland has a 'unsolicited business fax' law. There is a cottage industry of lawyers that buys your unsolicited faxes and squeezes about $800 per fax out of the senders. That has to be the most frustrating way to spend your day as a lawyer.
 
The FCC has rules against unsolicited fax messages. Now and then I read in the FCC's Daily Digest where they have assessed an unholy fine against some outfit for sending a relatively small number of them. Go to www.fcc.gov and see if you can find a link for reporting this. I doubt you'll get anything, but you can help reduce the deficit. :D
 
You know how annoying it is to deal with government? They don't accept pdf emails. Only faxes. OMG - don't get me started. The court system hates lawyers so much that they went widespread pdf for filings but the rest of the government still refuses to send or accept email.
 
weilke said:
Maryland has a 'unsolicited business fax' law. There is a cottage industry of lawyers that buys your unsolicited faxes and squeezes about $800 per fax out of the senders. That has to be the most frustrating way to spend your day as a lawyer.
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It is VERY easy money . . . . needed to pay for a vacation once so I hounded a sales people who sent me unsolicited faxes a couple months before I left.


They make the choice to break the law. . .

Dealing with phone calls is hard but when they spoof the caller ID badly and I know there is a round of contractor phone calls going around I waste their time - drag them out looking for windows or roofing - gets the contractor to come out - I spent some time with the guy and then ask him if he follows the law. He knows where I'm going - and they always get ****ed off and leave. If EVERYONE who got a contractor telemarketing call asked for a quote - they'd stop so fast . . .

Telemarketers swap sucker lists - one day they'll have to get smart and start with no-call lists.
 
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comanchepilot said:
Telemarketers swap sucker lists - one day they'll have to get smart and start with no-call lists.
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Won't happen. Telemarketers are dumber than a box of rocks. If they had intelligence about that of a house plant, they'd get productive employment.
 
comanchepilot said:
You know how annoying it is to deal with government? They don't accept pdf emails. Only faxes. OMG
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Check out some of the online fax services. I use Unity Fax. I send an email from my email account to 8005551212@routefax.com with PDF attachments, and they fax the attachments to 8005551212, and email back a confirmation. I think I pay $0.05/page. Incoming faxes are covered by the initial fee.
 
comanchepilot said:
You know how annoying it is to deal with government? They don't accept pdf emails. Only faxes. OMG - don't get me started. The court system hates lawyers so much that they went widespread pdf for filings but the rest of the government still refuses to send or accept email.
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It'd overload their system for searching mail for keywords related to crimes. ;)
 
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