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Junk Faxes and Fax Scams

Have you received "vacation memos" and "stock tips" on your company fax machine? Does you fax machine spew out junk advertising? You've probably seen the stack of sleazy fax advertisements by your company fax machine.

These are typically calls from telemarketers autofax programs. Autofax dialers can produce, store, and dial telephone numbers using a random or sequential number generator. Often, they dial every number in a sequence, hoping that some are valid and they will connect to a fax machine.  Once they make a connection, they log the number as a valid fax machine so they can send even more junk faxes and fax scams.

Below are links to examples of these scams and junk faxes. See this page for what you can do to stop them!

More questions?

See this list of frequently asked questions, direct from the FTC.

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Names used by scammers in the examples on this page and others often belong to real people and businesses who often have no knowledge of nor connection to the scammer's use of their name and information.  Sample scam emails and other documents are copies of the scam to help potential victims recognize and avoid it.  You should presume that any names used and presented here in a scam are either fictitious or used without their legitimate owner's permission.
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