Hot Stocks on the Street !!! (Pain in A$$ faxes)

10/08/06 | PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

[thoughtomator]

I have replaced my fax entirely with a digital camera and email. Faster, more compact, impossible to falsify, doesn't require a phone line, and of course, nobody can dial into my camera.

[Dog Gone]

The printer attached to my computer prints, copies, and scans. It's not like it was expensive. Less than $200. I can email any document that I have without the phone or long distance charges, and the quality of the document is better than what a fax can deliver.

I don't know why fax machines are still in use, to be honest.

[thoughtomator]

My experience with multi-function devices - especially printer/copy/scan/fax combos - is that they don't do any of the functions particularly well, and if one of those functions fail you lose all of them at once. Thus I have a printer that is just a printer, use a camera to "scan", and email to send facsimile images.

[JRios1968]

When you call them asking them to remove your fax # from their list, you simply confirm to them that it IS a good fax #...it's the same concept as the spam storm.

[Mudcat]

Pathfinder's faxes say they took money from a company called Gemini Market News for the privilege of sending unsolicited faxes to my machine. I did a little research this afternoon, having received dozens of these faxes over the past year. A little googling found this item --> The Gary Halbert Letter You'll note that Mr. Halbert's newsletter says to send payment in the form of a check made out to "Pathfinder Marketing". And who is this Gary Halbert? Well, lookee at this little item from the US District Court in Massachuesetts --> Stock fraud bust, order to cease & desist And here's this Google search result that indicates Mr. Halbert and his companies, Cherrywood Publishing and Bond Halbert, have gotten into quite a few spats with the SEC and other branches of the US government for securities and trade fraud. So I faxed a color-reversed copy of the unsolicited fax in question to Mr. Halbert's attorney, with an embedded request to have Mr. Halbert stop sending his unwanted faxes. The US Court system listed Mr. Halbert's attorney's fax number near the bottom of their order requiring Mr. Halbert to stop commiting securities fraud, so that came in real handy.