Stopping Junk Faxes

Here are the 'official' recommended steps
- which probably won't help much

• Ask The Sender to Opt Out of Their Lists

• File a Complaint With The FCC

• Spam them back with 100 pages
  

In the world of faxing, there is no real spam filter. Once your number is on a fax spam list it can be sold on the dark web to endless new spammers.

 

Here's the laws and regulations from the FCC

Wikipedia has a good page about unsolicited faxes and the attempts to deal with it. It's a long read with no real solutions.

Another site discussing the issue is junkfax.org where you can hire an attorney...

For a large company, with a very high volume of spammy faxes, your local phone carrier can set up a 'Call Trap' on your line to find an individual sender. However, this is both expensive and time consuming.

FAXtopia's Does IP Blocking of numerous countries including China, Russia, Eastern Europe and several others. That stops a lot.

Here's how you can stop fax spam:

When you receive a fax from FAXtopia, the Subject line reads:
‘You have received a fax from 555-555-5555’
Within your e-mail client, set a Rule that any email that contains 555-555-5555 is automatically sent to the trash / deleted folder. You will never again see them in your inbox.
However, be super careful not to create a rule against FAXtopia. If you do, all your faxes will get deleted. Just block the fax number from that particular spam fax.
If you need help with your specific e-mail system, just ask your system administrator to show you how to do this simple process.

 

Aother (not ideal) solution would be to get a new fax number. The clean way to do this process is to keep the old fax # active, and then also get a new number from FAXtopia. Over time, as your website and marketing materials are updated with the new number, you can eventually delete the old number. The old spam will end.

if you accidently blocked us, here's instructions on unblocking FAXtopia