SPAM Faxes

[MOD500]

For some reason within the last few weeks, I am seeing at least 6 rubbish faxes every day....selling me phones, water coolers, and viagra, etc.

Is there any way to stop this tide of rubbish wasting paper and ink?

I remember a thread a while ago which had a link to a site that stopped the problem faxes, though the link doesn't work any more.

Surely sending all these faxes cannot even be legal? Same as the calls I get from Indians wanting to sell me telephones, and Wall Street Bankers with hot investment opportunities.

Pah!

[pdV6]

Register with FPS, in the same way that you would with TPS.

It works (mostly)

www.fpsonline.org.uk/fps/

>> Edited by pdV6 on Monday 6th December 16:11

[Davel]

Pity we can't do something like this for e-mails yet.

[MOD500]

Thank you very much!

[pdV6]

No worries. Seems to take a month or two to settle down.
We went from 10+ per day to maybe 1 per month now.

[simpo two]

Yes, it works for all 'legit' faxers. There may be one or two who don't take any notice; keep their faxes and report them to the Information Commisioner. I had a few of these and was eventually asked to send them in together with a statement so they could get the bastards closed down. Not a peep since!

[UKBoB]

Davel said:

Pity we can't do something like this for e-mails yet.

You can, sort of.

A study revealed that ninety something percent of spam was from bogus companies.

Every time you "click here to unsubscribe" you only confirm that you are a real person with a valid email address, and your email address will be compiled with others, and sold from spammers to those who wish to do their own bulk mailing.

Another tip to reduce spam, do not leave your email address scattered around the internet. Spammers use "email harvesters" - programs that run on broadband computers, endlessly surfing the text-matter on the net, following all links and making a note of all email addresses.

Use a form on your contact page, or contact someone [plug]like me [/plug] to "encrypt" the email address on your site so that it cant be found by email harvesting programs.

[mutt k]

People still use faxes for marketing? I seem to eceive on average about one a month now!

[aceparts_com]

Never had many faxes but did receive lots of junk mail and calls before I registered with a website as deceased!