One way to fix fax telemarketers

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

The outgoing fax # they have on the header probably isn't a real #, Carlos. Does *69 work on faxes?

Pete, it was working fine yesterday when I responded.
I didn't send to the fax number it came from.
I sent it to the business fax number for the one who wants me to contact them to get insurance with them.

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

Which is the problem with thinking we are inflicting pain on the sender by returning faxes. These faxes typically come not from physical machines but fax software. We have used this type of technology for a long time. Inbound faxes are received and stored as PDF's. With the advent of IP phone technology this type of operation can scale up pretty massively for outbound blitzes with little means of doing much to them in response.

The PDF's do take up space though so virtual faxing to them enough content could chew up their disk space assuming they actually set up to receive and or store the results.

Send pictures of your A$$.

[CigarNut]

Originally Posted by Blueface

Pete, it was working fine yesterday when I responded.
I didn't send to the fax number it came from.
I sent it to the business fax number for the one who wants me to contact them to get insurance with them.

Keep us posted as to whether this works for you!

[Da Klugs]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

Keep us posted as to whether this works for you!

If you really want to send a message. Contact them via phone. See how long you can keep them on the line talking.

Make it your daily morning wake-up routine over coffee for a few weeks. They might get the message in this way better than most.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

If you really want to send a message. Contact them via phone. See how long you can keep them on the line talking.

Make it your daily morning wake-up routine over coffee for a few weeks. They might get the message in this way better than most.

Dave,
Some of these outfits are getting very smart to that.
In my case, the only contact number provided is a fax number, for both to respond to the add if interested and to contact them to have my number removed.
While two different numbers, both are faxes.

[Subvet642]

I may be mistaken, but can't you call your phone company and have their number blocked from connecting with your line?

[sikk50]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

If you really want to send a message. Contact them via phone. See how long you can keep them on the line talking.

Make it your daily morning wake-up routine over coffee for a few weeks. They might get the message in this way better than most.

This.

ATT was jerking one of my employees around so he called and spent 1.5hrs talking to this one poor guy. Wasn't mean or yelling just overly nice and pleasant wanting to know how this guys life was going and what not. But the end of the phone call the guy was so grateful to get off the phone he offered him an early upgrade on his contract.

[RGD.]

When I had my fax line I had the call reject features, etc on the line which really cut down on the trash - but every now and then I would still get the occasional persistent trash. So this is what I would do after the first fax to them asking them to stop and they didn't:

Wait until it was late night so I wouldn't need the fax line.
Go to one of my computers that had a fax card installed it.
Open up MS Word
Open largest PDF file that I had, such as the AB Chance Manual or OSHA Manual.
Tell MS Word to print to fax - 200 copies or so.
Select reconnect on fail.
Go to bed with a smirk on my face.


Maybe it did something or not - but I felt better and the faxes normally stopped.

Don't have the fax line anymore. I can fax out if need be but I don't accept faxes from anyone.

Ron

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by RGD.

When I had my fax line I had the call reject features, etc on the line which really cut down on the trash - but every now and then I would still get the occasional persistent trash. So this is what I would do after the first fax to them asking them to stop and they didn't:

Wait until it was late night so I wouldn't need the fax line.
Go to one of my computers that had a fax card installed it.
Open up MS Word
Open largest PDF file that I had, such as the AB Chance Manual or OSHA Manual.
Tell MS Word to print to fax - 200 copies or so.
Select reconnect on fail.
Go to bed with a smirk on my face.


Maybe it did something or not - but I felt better and the faxes normally stopped.

Don't have the fax line anymore. I can fax out if need be but I don't accept faxes from anyone.

Ron

Great one!

Just found this website for "blocked" calls.
Neat stuff.
Lots of clips of tv news spots about it.
www.trapcall.com