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Q: fax numbers in Chicago, IL ( No Answer,   6 Comments )
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Subject: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: lcoffey75-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 27 Jul 2004 14:39 PDT
Expires: 26 Aug 2004 14:39 PDT
Question ID: 379904
Where is 773-213-7467 listed as a fax number?
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Subject: Re: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
From: nenna-ga on 27 Jul 2004 15:16 PDT
 
Hello,

When I called that number, I got a personal answering machine. Are you
sure it's a fax number?

Nenna-GA
Subject: Re: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
From: lcoffey75-ga on 27 Jul 2004 16:29 PDT
 
You get a voicemail because it's my personal phone number - some phone
list or website somewhere has it listed as a fax number, and I keep
getting LOTS of calls from fax machines.  Very annoying, with all the
beeping voicemails the machines keep leaving.  I want to find out
where it is listed so I can contact them and tell them to please
correct their mistake.
Subject: Re: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
From: nenna-ga on 27 Jul 2004 16:44 PDT
 
Hello again,

In doing a google search, I didn't find a reference to your number. It
could be more than likely that someone's fax # got misprinted on a
business card. We'll keep looking into this for you however.

Nenna-GA
Subject: Re: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
From: crabcakes-ga on 27 Jul 2004 18:18 PDT
 
If you have call blocking and caller ID, you could try and block that
number. Call your phone company and see what you can do about it.
Subject: Re: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
From: lcoffey75-ga on 27 Jul 2004 20:18 PDT
 
Thanks, I appreciate your looking into this.  I called Cingular (my
service provider) a couple months ago to see if there was anything I
could do, but since the calls come from many different numbers - three
different ones today, in fact - they told me there was nothing that
could be done.  Here's hoping one of you fine people can figure it
out!
Subject: Re: fax numbers in Chicago, IL
From: joey-ga on 27 Jul 2004 21:19 PDT
 
I believe you are getting junk faxes, most likely sent by a company
called Fax.com, which is supposedly responsible for most unsolicited
faxes in the US.  They buy fax number lists but also do blanket
machine cold-calls to sniff out fax machines.  It's possible your line
once had a fax machine on it (prior phone customer?) or the number
inadvertently has gotten into a junk marketer's system.

As you can read from the following site:
     http://www.junkfax.org/fax/basic_info/junk_fax_qa.htm

These companies, in particular Fax.com, are notorious for being
unresponsive, even after multiple requests and law suits.  We've been
getting junk faxes at our home fax machine for a few months now, and
we can't find any way to stop it.  It appears the only way to even
attempt to stop them is to sue them for damages under California law
(where they are located), and even then often they don't seem to stop.

I would recommend reading that URL and scrolling down to the Q/A
entitled "I don't have a fax machine, but starting at midnight, I get
fax calls! What can I do?"

--Joey

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