"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."

Oh, I hat it when they send me a fax and use my paper. I called then and said I wanted to take the trip. After hearing some of the details, I told them I was afraid to fly so could I take a bus.

I also received a fax to sell me toner and ink. The idiots gave an 800 fax number to reply with the order. My computer fax can be set to show any number and name I want so I sent them a fax. A long fax. and another fax. and another fax.

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Ed Pawlowski
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Oh Ed, you beast, you violated the law. Expect a federal SWAT team any moment. Oh yea, the Feds won't do anything about the other outlaws so I guess you're safe.

TDD

Reply to
The Daring Dufas

If you feel the need to donate to the local PBA, send the check directly to the local PBA. Make it out to the (PD name)PBA, in care of the treasurer. That way, they get 100% of the donation.

Reply to
willshak

I think paying for a WATS (800) number entitles you to a bill that includes a list of phone numbers which have called in. Dunno whether that includes over-riding a blocked number.

Reply to
Bryce

There is nothing to override, since toll-Free numbers don't use Caller ID. They use an older service called ANI that is not affected by CID blocking.

Reply to
Mark Lloyd

If it's delivered to a "target number" (really just a call forward to a regular line) and you subscribe to caller id (name and number) you will get the number and usually the name. The only exception is some government numbers (mental hospitals, cia, etc) that are blocked. Since you are paying for the call, you are entitled to receive the number, and name if there is one in the database. Older trunk service was limited to ani, but just about all calls now route via ss-7.

We get thousands of calls each month on 4 lines with 800 service and only miss one of two number/name each month. Our non 800 lines only average 60% unblocked cid, and 1/3 of those have no name (cell and voip calls).

That's one way the web companies gather the unlisted/non-pub numbers. Want to keep a private number. don't call any 800 number.

Reply to
larry

The FCC has been deluged with complaints about the auto warranty scam, but thus far has been unable to shut them down.

Reply to
SMS

I called my local tv news help line. Carl Monday made them pay. They were fined $1,000 for calling me when I was on the do not call list. The news reporters just love that stuff. Give them a call it might help. Jr

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Reply to
Jerry - OHIO

Some faxes allow you to loop two or three sheets with tape so it just keeps on sending and sending and sending and sending and sending ...... sometimes we just left it on leaving work on Friday.

you get the idea.

Steve

Reply to
SteveB

I've gotten those calls. I suppose they don't know that my only vehicle at the moment is over 10 years old.

Reply to
Mark Lloyd

You CAN take a bus to Cancun. You have to go through Mexico, but you can.

If YOU sent the fax, you're paying the phone charges. Unless it's a local number or you have a one-price phone bill, the joke's on you.

Reply to
h

It was to an 800 (toll free) number.

Reply to
Kurt Ullman

If you have caller ID, get the caller's number. Then do a search in Google, which will tell you who made the call and will lead you to websites that provide more details -- usually a string of reports from others who were harassed from the same number.

Reply to
JimR

So what? There are plenty of people who pay for minutes used, not just long distance. What if you're faxing from your Tracfone? You're still paying for minutes. Yes, if it's a landline with a standard phone plan, the phone call is free. Still a huge timewaster. Besides, who keeps their fax machine on unless they're expecting a fax?

Reply to
tmclone

just remember that they have to IN the house and they can't be shot in the back. With those two privisos, you should be good to go.

Reply to
Kurt Ullman

Nope. First, it doesn't matter if they're in your house, on the sidewalk, a block away, or on the moon. Most jurisdictions hold that if you feel your life was in danger, you have the right to respond with deadly force [without regard to distance].

In some enlightened jurisdictions (mine, for example), it's even okay to shoot them in the back. For example:

Texas Penal Code 9.42 Deadly Force to Protect Property. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property: (2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery,... theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or (B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery,... or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property...

If someone is torching a church, for example, and refuses all your entreaties to turn and face you so you can shoot them, what are you going to do?

Anyway, after you smoke the mope, just clean your gun and go back to watching "Dancing with the stars" - there's no need to even call it in.

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HeyBub

So what? There are plenty of people who pay for minutes used, not just long distance. What if you're faxing from your Tracfone? You're still paying for minutes. Yes, if it's a landline with a standard phone plan, the phone call is free. Still a huge timewaster. Besides, who keeps their fax machine on unless they're expecting a fax?

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Anyone dumb enough to fax from a Tracfone deserves to pay. Most businesses leave the fax on all the time too. We often come in to find a couple of faxes sent overnight or from other parts of the world.

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Ed Pawlowski

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