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Man Tells Fax Spammers To Go Fax Themselves...And They Comply
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| dimadelux |
Pat is our consumer action hero of the week. He writes:
For weeks now I have been receiving fax calls on my house line, a number I've had for over twenty years and now ported to VOIP; somehow, at some point, it got included on a telemarketing fax CD.
I get them 3-4 times a day, each repeated 3 times, starting at 6 AM. Being awaken by the cheerful chirping of a fax when answering the phone isn't my cup of tea: Nobody calls me at six, so when it rings I always think there is some kind of emergency!
I finally decided to do something about this problem, and using the caller ID number as starting point, Google kindly provides me with the main number and name of the offending company.
The receptionist was not so receptive to my request: Seems they have many employees, and no interest in tracking down who is sending what, because they are very, very busy. Goodbye.
OK. Fine by me. One great advantage of my VOIP provider (Primus, for anyone who cares) is that their base package includes many interesting features, including the possibility to redirect any number to another. Thirty seconds later, I had the fax number redirected to the receptionist's number.
Since the redirection happens at the exchange, it will of course be a bit more difficult for them to track down the origin of these new, annoying calls than if they had been willing to listen to my complaint. They had their chance, and blew it.
I call this forcing corporate responsibility.
http://consumerist.com/5050925/man-...and-they-comply
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| gehzumteufel |
| haha awesome. |
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| Abercrombie |
Well done.
What I used to do 10 years ago, was fax back lots of black sheets of paper using up all their ink and thermal fax paper, as well as burning up their fax's thermal heads. |
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| woscar99 |
:haha: well played!
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Well done.
What I used to do 10 years ago, was fax back lots of black sheets of paper using up all their ink and thermal fax paper, as well as burning up their fax's thermal heads. |
This one is also money |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| I used some 300 page government law .pdf I downloaded and would bomb these pricks when they would spam me on a daily basis. Puts a stop to it real quick! |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
I used some 300 page government law .pdf I downloaded and would bomb these pricks when they would spam me on a daily basis. Puts a stop to it real quick! |
LOL nice. I love hearing about like this. When you get back at a company for being ing pricks, and they finally listen when you become a dick and cost them a bunch of money they could have avoided spending. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
What I used to do 10 years ago, was fax back lots of black sheets of paper using up all their ink and thermal fax paper, as well as burning up their fax's thermal heads. |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
I used some 300 page government law .pdf I downloaded and would bomb these pricks when they would spam me on a daily basis. Puts a stop to it real quick! |
Im taking notes on this. Thanks, dudes. |
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| THE_Chris |
Another way is to get an old fax machine, get a bit of black paper and tape one end to the other so it continually feeds itself as one long black page.
For added hilarity, put swear words on it. |
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