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On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 9:41:44AM -0500, Phil Bailey wrote:
> Somehow these leaches got my fax number and have been soliciting
> through my Fax machine. I'm trying my best to get the FTC to fine
> these low life sob's.
>
> Every 2 mortgage ads per day on Omega-list of last 3 of 4 days are
> by a different poster who that has been their only post ever. They
> evidently have a random id generator, which some sites have the
> irregular shaped word recognition systems to defeat these bastards.
I assume you are referring to a different "Omega-list" than this one;
I'm quite sure this list has never distributed any of those mortgage
ads to which you refer, or any of the other 200-300 attempts per day
the spammers send to it. Occasionally one will slip through the
list's filters and as a consequence the spammer will get a rejection
notice for not being a subscriber, but even that is rare.
> They keep sending me the same fax number to send to, so there may
> be way to filter these low tech criminals out on Omega-list(?).
Again, you are not being sent spam through the omega-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Check the full headers of suspect mail; you'll find legitimate list
mail is easily distinguishable from spam.
> This is probably legal in their country, so I don't know what can
> realistically be done except to filter this crap.
There have been stories over the past six months on NPR regarding
the rash of junk faxes everyone seems to be receiving. Apparently
they're mostly sent by one large U.S. company. They are technically
illegal, but for some reason, the laws are not being enforced.
I get two or three a day on my fax; I keep it "out of paper" unless
the sender has made prior arrangements, and I turn the telephone
ringer off at night so the house isn't disturbed by the damn things.
Jim
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