Junk Fax's

[macphoneguy]

since I've gotten quite a Few of then Lately I know there are a pile of Rules about unsolicited Fax's selling everything from printer Supplies to vacations and everything inbetween, I have to imagine some of the tech's out there have come up with some "creative" ways of Getting the number Removed perhaps a modem set to speed dial the removal Number a dozen times,

 

[skip555]

well if there is a return fax number to fax your order to I did hear about someone taping together a half dozen or so sheets in a continios loop and then faxing it so it just kept running thus tying up there fax machine and runnig it out of paper..

 

[AvayaNovice]

These are computer servers that do this, not fax machines

 

[orypecos]

I read about a lawyer that spent about 90 hours of his time sueing them and got $250 in court. I think I like something that runs their fax out of paper better, especially if they have a toll free number, serves the b%$^&*s right.

 

[Sympology]

Make sure the paper loop has lost of black on it. Runs out the toner as well !

2 decades from retirement, 2 minutes from a breakdown

 

[Sympology]

Make sure the paper loop has lots of black on it. Runs out the toner as well ! No abusive messages though, thats illegal.

Stu..

2 decades from retirement, 2 minutes from a breakdown

 

[Toni269]

I've been having quite a bit of trouble with "Spam Faxes" as I call them. What they are doing is illegal, however my company is not willing to sue at this point. I've done some research on the Telecom Consumer Protection Act of 1991. According to what I found out is that it's punishible by a $500.00 fine per occurance. Since they call all of our DID numbers multiple times our settlement could be in the 100's of thousands of dollars. This is AFTER I already asked this Fax Spamming company stop. I know a law firm KBLA who is interested in these types of cases.

http://www.kbla.com

- you could try them if your company is willing to take legal action.

Read this website for more details on the law and penalty:

http://www.terabyte.net/title47.htm

I wish I had a magic solution as this has caused us much headache - they are sending these spam faxes to our voice lines tying up our operators with hundreds of ringing phones and we are emergency response 24x7 - they only way I have gotten them to stop is to call the CLEC's Annoyance call bureau and report it, it takes making a police report -but it's the only alternative that I know of for now.

 

[SF0751]

This suggestion might not work for everyone, but we have had the same problem here, and this is one solution that I've used successfully:

We have an Avaya PBX (MV 1.3) and our FAX lines are DID's. I changed the fax number to a non-DID number, and pointed the DID(s) to a vector. My vector reads similar to:

01 wait 2 secs hearing silence
02 goto step 4 if ani in table 1
03 route to number 1111 with cov n if unconditionally
04 disconnect after announcement 8888
05 stop

1111 is my fax machine, 8888 is an announcement that states "You have reached a non-working number" (just in case anyone's actually listening), and table 1 is my vector-routing table. I collect the spam-fax numbers from my Call Detail Reporting system (NOT the actual fax header), and put'em in as we get the junk.

Again, it might not work for everyone, but it works well for us.

Susan
[sub]You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.[/sub]
[sup]Aristophanes, 424 B.C.[/sup]
[sup]Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.

 

[Sphoneman]

This is what we have sent back to the companies that offer us the vacations & investment advice.

REMOVE FROM LIST !!!!!!



Effective December 20, 1992, FCC rules ban the transmission of
unsolicited advertisements to telephone facsimile machines.

An "unsolicited advertisement" is defined as a transmission advertising
the commercial availability or quality of property, goods or services
without the prior express invitation or permission of the person or
entity receiving the transmission.

Unsolicited advertisements may not be transmitted by any device to a
telephone facsimile machine unless the person receiving the facsimile
has given prior express invitation or permission to receive it. If the
sender and the recipient have an established business relationship, an
invitation or permission to receive unsolicited facsimile
advertisements is presumed to exist.


However, the recipient may end an
established business relationship by requesting that no further
unsolicited advertisements be sent, thus revoking any invitation or
permission to receive further transmissions.


FCC rules require that each transmission to a telephone facsimile
machine must clearly contain, in a margin at the top or bottom of each
transmitted page or on the first page of the transmission, (1) the
date and time the transmission is sent (2) the identity of the sender
and (3) the telephone number of the sender or of the sending machine.
All telephone facsimile machines manufactured on or after December 20,
1992 must have the capacity to clearly mark such identifying
information on the first page or on each page of the transmission.

[Note, according to the FCC January 13, 1993 Public Notice, the
requirement to mark faxes with the above identifying information on
applied to fax machines and not for fax cards used in computers
pending reconsideration proceedings.]
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH FCC RULES ON TELEPHONE
FACSIMILE TRANSMISSIONS?


The person on whose behalf a facsimile transmission is sent will
ultimately be held liable for violations of the TCPA or FCC rules.
DO THE TCPA AND THE FCC'S RULES PREEMPT STATE LAW?


Steve
tele-dataservices.com

 

[Ghostin]

like avaya said, most of this is done via a dialer computer. They have 4-16 ports in them and are programmed with a range of numbers say 555-1000 to 555-9999. then they constantly dial the numbers in order until the get fax tones, then transmit.

 

[rocketpwerdtelecom]

sphoneman,
You need to update your information:

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes.html

Basically, now you can fill out an online complaint form and the sending company gets slapped for $500 per incident.