I suspect any of you who have a fax machine have gotten ’em – Those annoying fax ads for dream vacations, comferences, get rich quick schemes, and all sorts of other unwanted B.S.
Do any of you know how to stop these companies from sending them out? For about a year now, I’ve been taking every one we get. I call the number at the bottom, (The one that says “Call this number to be removed from our list”) and put in our fax number to have it removed. But it hasn’t slowed down the barrage of faxes coming in.
So I’m wondering – When you call those numbers, do they really record the number? Or are they just recording designed to make you THINK your number has been removed?
I sincerely hope there’s a special place in hell for people who do this stuff. (And phone solicitirs and email spammers) But for now, I’d be happy just to be off their phone lists.
Never knock on Death’s door. Ring the bell and run, he hates that.
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Check out http://www.tcpalaw.com
And do a google on TCPA and FAX or JUNK FAX.
If you want you can make some nice cash off of this.
http://www.keytlaw.com/faxes/hooterscase.htm
"ACCORDINGLY, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, DECREED AND ADJUDGED that plaintiffs shall have judgment against defendants jointly and severally in the sum of $11,889,000. From that sum, attorneys' fees and expenses in the sum of $3,931,035.62 shall be deducted and paid to class counsel, Burnside, Wall, Daniel, Ellison & Revell. The sum of $15,000 is awarded to Sam Nicholson for his services as class representative."
"The above stated case came on regularly for trial on March 19. 2001.
Defendant Clark failed to answer the complaint and is in default.
Defendant Hooters appeared at trial and presented a defense. Through a
special verdict returned on March 21, 2001, the jury found that defendants
violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") by unlawfully
transmitting six (6) unsolicited Hooters facsimile advertisements to the 1,321 members of the certified class. Based on this finding, each class member is entitled to recover $3,000. 47 U.S.C.
Guess I'll plug in my fax and see if Hooters wants to talk to me!
Send $3000 and a pair of those Hooters girls right over.
Joe H
Actually I read in the paper a couple weeks ago that a local guy was able to sue Sears for violating this law but he applied it to email. He showed how email is a type of facsimile. Sears didn't even contest the suit just paid. If I remember right it was a couple hundred-dollar award.
He was letting everybody know about this so more people would do the same thing and put an end to spam.
Boss, check with your local office of consumer affairs or whatever they call it in your area (Illinois?) I live outside of Boston and the state just organized a "do not call" and a "do not fax" list that you can get put on as easily as dialing an 800#. It really does work. This list is distributed to all telemarketing type companies who do business in our state. It is mandatory that they register with the state before doing business and obey the list. I don't remember the exact fines for violation but they are very steep and the state has been doing a good job of enforcing them.
Wish they'd do the same thing for email...ya breakdown in a moment of weakness and visit one or two questionable internet sites and next thing you know your email is X rated for the rest of your life. Kinda scary in fact!
Edited 3/10/2003 6:30:23 PM ET by dieselpig
I've been told that if you try to click the "remove from the list" box on lots of spamming sites that it simply tells the sender that it's a good address, so they send more and put you on more lists to sell....
Does anyone have any suggestion of a way to verify that?
I know I get plenty of costly junk faxes and spam.
Besides, lately I can even find spam on Breaktime!Average Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
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