No, really. I’m willing to show a degree of mercy and tolerance (unparolable life in prison at hard labor, let’s say, somewhere in the Nevada desert) for murderers, rapists, molesters, and terrorists. But spammers are just … evil. They should just be summarily shot. Or stepped on, like the cockroaches they are.
So our voice mail system has a fax capability — if someone calls my direct line on a fax machine, the system will save the message as a voice mail that can then be routed (when I go into the system) to the fax machine of my choice. I’ve never used the feature, since I have an electronic fax number (which sends it, much more conveniently, to my e-mail), but I’ve been aware of it.
So, now, evidently, are some fax spammers, who have taken to sending me fax spam (a/k/a “junk faxes”). Since dealing with them is a pain (I have to go in to the voice mail system, I have to listen to the prompts, I have to tell it a fax machine to route to, I have to go to the fax machine and pick up the … offer to CUT YOUR HOUSE PAYMENT IN HALF!!), and since there is “spam filter” for these sorts of things … grrrrr.
Thus, I shall be contacting my local phone IT guru, and ask (a) what’s the best protocol (presumably calling the convenient 877 number at the bottom of the fax is useless), and/or (b) can the fax service on my extension be disabled. Probably the latter, since, as noted, I never use it, and now it’s using me.
Grrr.