[Hidden-tech] Junk Faxes

[Edbride-PR]

There is a way to report illegal calls to your telephone provider. I've forgotten the process; it starts with *69...if you can identify the number, you can then report it with another combination to report annoyance calls...*65 or *67. I did this a few years back.

Ed

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Duane Dale 
  To: 'Alan Hurwitz' ; 'Rikk Desgres' 
  Cc: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:00 PM
  Subject: RE: [Hidden-tech] Junk Faxes






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  Rikk, Alan, et al:  What's been worse than junk faxes for me is attempted junk faxes coming into voice lines - both my home office # and my home number, and at all sorts of odd times.  I know they're junk faxes because I've sometimes connected my fax machine to those lines to receive the fax - and then I've called the "do not send" number at the bottom and maybe gotten some temporary relief. But I've wondered whether connecting a fax machine that will answer a fax coming into a voice line only encourages them to send more.

   

  I've started to wonder whether a national "do not fax" registry, similar to the "do not call" registry, would be part of a solution.  And I wish it would automatically have all lines that are believed (by the phone companies?) to be voice lines, not fax lines -- unless their owners took them OFF the "do not fax" registry.

   

  Meanwhile, and I think based on a suggestion in a Hidden Tech thread, I've been using Packetel's pFax service (www.packetel.com, $4/month), which gives me a virtual fax number (mine's a "Connecticut" 203 #) and converts faxes to emails. I don't think I've gotten any junk faxes on that number, but if I did, at least I wouldn't be wasting paper & ink on them.

   

  -- Duane

   

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