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As someone who works from home - Please don't do it, there's nothing worse than my fax machine ringing at 4am only to deliver some kind of spam. 
I had to register with the mailing preference service to get my number removed. Heaven knows how it got there in the first place, it is supposed to be unlisted!
I had to register with the mailing preference service to get my number removed. Heaven knows how it got there in the first place, it is supposed to be unlisted!
Spam, whether fax or email is now illegal in Europe and you can be heavily fined.
Ok as long as your customers ‘opt in’.
Be very careful.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm
However if you ignore all this, Winfax is very good, I use it regularly to keep key customers updated.
Ok as long as your customers ‘opt in’.
Be very careful.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm
However if you ignore all this, Winfax is very good, I use it regularly to keep key customers updated.
I refuse to deal with any company that uses this or other spam methods
Fax is the worst of them all - my last fax machine i wound up having to keep it unplugged because it was costing me a fortune in junk crap in the end had to change the number
>> Edited by dontlift on Wednesday 18th February 22:38
Fax is the worst of them all - my last fax machine i wound up having to keep it unplugged because it was costing me a fortune in junk crap in the end had to change the number
>> Edited by dontlift on Wednesday 18th February 22:38
Damn right. I work from home and got, well, highly bloody cross when my phone would ring at 1am. It was usually 192.com and I had great pleasure in collecting the faxes and sending them to the Information Commissioner to help prosecution (The FPS is only voluntary, and useless if the sender has no scruples).
The faxes stopped. I hope the bastards who ran 192.com and its like are either in jail or being kept awake by phones in a torture cell. Bastards.
Feel better now! But I hope we answered your Q...?
The faxes stopped. I hope the bastards who ran 192.com and its like are either in jail or being kept awake by phones in a torture cell. Bastards.
Feel better now! But I hope we answered your Q...?
I recently did a direct mail campaign which had a 1.5% response rate (which is actually quite decent !)
I also sent out a load of emails which I, as you, believed would be a complete waste of time but got about a 4% return! When you factor cost into this it makes it much more favourable (so long as you have enough email addresses and the users 'permission')
I also sent out a load of emails which I, as you, believed would be a complete waste of time but got about a 4% return! When you factor cost into this it makes it much more favourable (so long as you have enough email addresses and the users 'permission')
Perhaps the key is personal invasion. A fax arriving is noisy and interruptive. So, for that matter, is a sales call, though at least you get a human being to talk to. Spam, though much reviled, is at least quiet (ie it doesn't wake you up or interrupt you) and you don't have to pay for paper. I don't mind carefully targeted e-mails from companies offering useful services.
chim_girl said:
As someone who works from home - Please don't do it, there's nothing worse than my fax machine ringing at 4am only to deliver some kind of spam.
I had to register with the mailing preference service to get my number removed. Heaven knows how it got there in the first place, it is supposed to be unlisted!
How do you go about getting your fax number on the mail preference list to prevent spam faxes please? As the amount of ink and paper wasted in the office is a farce. Have recently noticed faxes coming from firms purporting to being able to remove your fax number from all lists........these companies however are usually based in Europe, and it costs £1.50 per min to fax back your reply, calls last 3 mins.........hello!
Also, has anyone else received letters from Nigerians claiming to have $10 million in a safe account? Another one came this morning from South Africa, a similar letter came 2 weeks ago with a German post mark and stamp. It looks to be the same hand writing on both envelopes
Thanks
MOD.
I hate spam faxes above all other forms of spam.
I registered with the fax preference service www.fps.org.uk in 2000 and it works brilliantly. Then a few months or so ago I started getting junk faxes again. I returned a few of them to the senders with a cheery message along the lines of
off you written across them. However, on closer investigation I learned that BT had removed me from the FPS list! 
A BT manager has "looked into it" and concluded that it was a "computer error".
I'm now re-registered.
But if you are a business (it is already illegal to send unsolicited faxes to private individuals) the FPS works really well.
I registered with the fax preference service www.fps.org.uk in 2000 and it works brilliantly. Then a few months or so ago I started getting junk faxes again. I returned a few of them to the senders with a cheery message along the lines of
off you written across them. However, on closer investigation I learned that BT had removed me from the FPS list! A BT manager has "looked into it" and concluded that it was a "computer error".
I'm now re-registered. But if you are a business (it is already illegal to send unsolicited faxes to private individuals) the FPS works really well.
MOD500 said:
Have recently noticed faxes coming from firms purporting to being able to remove your fax number from all lists........these companies however are usually based in Europe, and it costs £1.50 per min to fax back your reply, calls last 3 mins.........hello!
Mod
These you need to report to ICSTIS www.icstis.org.uk
who are the regulator for premium rate numbers. These faxes are just a scam.
>> Edited by unrepentant on Tuesday 24th February 10:35
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