Fax Spam - Is It For Real?

Unfortunately at least 90% of the people reading this page will have become used to receiving spam via email. The nuisance of spam has become a sad and annoying fact of life for most computer users on the planet. Spam doesn't only arrive by computer however.

The office practice of sending jokes by fax years ago inevitably led to the appearance of advertisements and business opportunities appearing in the output of fax machines all over the world. For the younger readers out there fax machines have long ago become office antiques with email having replaced them in a matter of a few years. If you've never received spam via a fax machine then don't feel left out.

Sending spam by fax was a natural progression for spammers. Instead of having to mail out thousands of envelopes they simply had to feed one or two sheets of paper into a fax machine and dial one number after another (or even worse use a dialler that could dial thousands of numbers per day). The cost for sending the spam by fax was often far less than the printing and postal costs involved in snail mail spam.

The Nigerian money letter was definitely one of the most popular pieces of spam to be sent via fax and there were several reported cases of otherwise sensible people handing over $10,000 to get their share of the hidden Nigerian cash. One English couple even travelled to Nigeria and were murdered whilst there - all because of a fax they received.

So how do you stop spam arriving by fax? Fortunately you shouldn't need to as the day for fax spam has come and gone. If you do receive spam by fax then check the station ID that the fax came from as that normally has the number on it. You can then report this number to your telephone company and have it blocked. If the station ID doesn't show up on the fax itself then give your telephone company a quick ring and ask them to track the numbers dialled to you on that day and block the number that way. Reporting fax spam to a telephone company in the senders country is pointless however as most of the the time the fax comes from a third world country where the telephone companies are owned by the government and are inherently corrupt.

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