Chris Hendrickson asked:
You’ve just crawled into bed after a long, hard day. Your back is sore and your head is pounding. Your small business is drowning in debt and you busted your **** all day long trying to keep it afloat. Your wife thinks you’re wasting your time and wants you to give up and get a “real job”. You’re exhausted and frustrated and you’re desperately looking for a sign that things finally are going to turn around.
As you lay in bed trying to free your mind of your worries, you hear a faint beeping sound coming from your home office. Its your fax machine letting you know that a fax is being received! Could it be a sales order? Maybe that expensive ad you took out wasn’t a waste of time after all! At last your efforts are paying off!
You jump out of bed and dash across the hall to your office. Your heart is pounding and you have dollar signs in your eyes as you reach for the fax. Turning on your light and fumbling with your glasses you anxiously grab the paper and see…
An advertisement for an “unbeatable deal” for 4 days and 5 nights in Las Vegas.
Another junk fax with some crappy ad that you didn’t ask for. Suddenly you feel your blood pressure skyrocket as you tear the fax to shreds and briefly consider doing the same to the rest of your office. Why do these fax spammers have to torture us like this?
Isn’t there a way to stop them?
Actually there is. And it’s even easier than you think. Just grab the scraps of paper out of the garbage and look for the return number on the printout. Once you have the number that originated the fax you can run a reverse fax number lookup to find out who the culprit is.
Some people who send out junk faxes honestly don’t realize that what they’re doing is wrong. They probably read some book on “making fast money” and thought it was ok to blast fax ads to thousands of innocent people. If you simply tell them you don’t want to receive their faxes anymore they’ll usually stop.
If they refuse or continue to send junk faxes you can report them to the FCC. Being fined thousands of dollars will get them to stop for good.
You’ve just crawled into bed after a long, hard day. Your back is sore and your head is pounding. Your small business is drowning in debt and you busted your **** all day long trying to keep it afloat. Your wife thinks you’re wasting your time and wants you to give up and get a “real job”. You’re exhausted and frustrated and you’re desperately looking for a sign that things finally are going to turn around.
As you lay in bed trying to free your mind of your worries, you hear a faint beeping sound coming from your home office. Its your fax machine letting you know that a fax is being received! Could it be a sales order? Maybe that expensive ad you took out wasn’t a waste of time after all! At last your efforts are paying off!
You jump out of bed and dash across the hall to your office. Your heart is pounding and you have dollar signs in your eyes as you reach for the fax. Turning on your light and fumbling with your glasses you anxiously grab the paper and see…
An advertisement for an “unbeatable deal” for 4 days and 5 nights in Las Vegas.
Another junk fax with some crappy ad that you didn’t ask for. Suddenly you feel your blood pressure skyrocket as you tear the fax to shreds and briefly consider doing the same to the rest of your office. Why do these fax spammers have to torture us like this?
Isn’t there a way to stop them?
Actually there is. And it’s even easier than you think. Just grab the scraps of paper out of the garbage and look for the return number on the printout. Once you have the number that originated the fax you can run a reverse fax number lookup to find out who the culprit is.
Some people who send out junk faxes honestly don’t realize that what they’re doing is wrong. They probably read some book on “making fast money” and thought it was ok to blast fax ads to thousands of innocent people. If you simply tell them you don’t want to receive their faxes anymore they’ll usually stop.
If they refuse or continue to send junk faxes you can report them to the FCC. Being fined thousands of dollars will get them to stop for good.