Getting CONSTANT faxes....help me!

[FunSeeker27]

You guys are always the gurus for computer stuff so here goes another one. I've been getting faxes at home for the past 2/3 weeks from a vancouver number, and I'm kinda hoping it's CIBC messing up their faxes again so I can retire early!

I have cable internet and no fax machine. Would I need a phone modem on the puter or is there a program out there that I can use that will take the fax and print it off on the computer somehow? I'm thinking no, but if someone know's something, I'll split the CIBC lawsuit proceeds with ya!!

 

[tboy]

There is a site online where you can send and receive faxes, sorry, don't know what it is, do a google search.

As for tracing the number, go to www.canada411.com and you might be able to find it there.

I would also contact Bell and tell them about the problem. I wouldn't get your hopes up about CIBC, it is probably some fax ad service......

 

[Larry_Fyne]

A regular modem made in the last 10 years is a fax/modem. If you are using XP, it comes with a fax applet that lets you send and receive faxes. You can set it to answer after x rings and then look at it on the screen or print it. To send a fax, you select "fax" as a printer and it will prompt you for cover page, number, etc.

 

[Jade4u]

That is what I did when I was receiving fax calls at my number I searched it up on the net and found ithem to be a medical supply places. I found one annoying persistant number and thier e mail address. First I sent them an e mail telling them to stop sending me faxes from thier other number in which they did not stop. I then had to phone thier other number and told them I am not a doctor and have no interest in thier supplies. After that it stopped. Who ever had my number before me must have been a doctor or a surgeon or something. I still occasionally get faxes from companies like that. You would think they would eventually realize the doctor is no longer at this number.

I guess this is the price you pay for having an unlisted number. They give you the number of a busy professional.

 

[DistantVoyeur]

That is what I did when I was receiving fax calls at my number I searched it up on the net and found ithem to be a medical supply places. I found one annoying persistant number and thier e mail address. First I sent them an e mail telling them to stop sending me faxes from thier other number in which they did not stop. I then had to phone thier other number and told them I am not a doctor and have no interest in thier supplies. After that it stopped. Who ever had my number before me must have been a doctor or a surgeon or something. I still occasionally get faxes from companies like that. You would think they would eventually realize the doctor is no longer at this number.

I guess this is the price you pay for having an unlisted number. They give you the number of a busy professional.

Maybe you should find the number again and see if you can get wholesale pricing on lube?

 

[to-guy69]

www.trustfax.com

Your own assigned toll free fax number with 70 faxes combined in/out per year for $20 US.

 

[bigshot]

Had a big problem once with a company that sent me numerous 25 page page faxes and they just laughed when I told them that I didn't want the fax and had no use for their service.

Faxes just kept on coming, so I called their office manager under a different pretext and she gave me their fax number. I just started to send their faxes back to them at all hours of the day and night doing my best to tie up their machine (with a cover letter asking them if they would reconsider). It seems they finally got the message and stopped sending me faxes.

Mission accomplished!!!

bigshot

 

[freakshow]

Get about 25 sheets of black paper (construction paper) and send it to them in the middle of the night.

 

[PHNINE]

I also had lots of faxes coming into land line at all hours of the day and night. So I did a reverse search and found out it was some financial company in Quebec. So I went to there website and I noticed they had a mission statement signed by their CEO. Low and behold the CEO's number was listed. I started calling and hanging up, calling and hanging up. I know this doesn't solve anything, but boy did I feel redemption. LOL

 

[FunSeeker27]

Thanks for the info folks, but if I don't have a modem on the computer (I'm on cable internet) am I shit outta luck then??? And I tried searching the numbers aleady on Canada411.com but they don't come back with any listings at all. So callin them to complain won't quite work. I might just fax them and ask them to call me - then give them shit!!! LOL

 

[basketcase]

Get about 25 sheets of black paper (construction paper) and send it to them in the middle of the night.

Don't now about current faxes but a roll of paper towel (the industrial kind, not the household) used to be a great solution.