[PLUG] Joe Jobbed

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Fri Oct 5 16:54:22 UTC 2007


On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:29:36AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Aaron Burt wrote:
> 
> > It's illegal and has been for a long time.  What's more, if you can track
> > down the FAX spammer, you can collect $500/FAX:
> > http://www.junkfax.org/fax/action/how_to_sue.html
> 
> Aaron,
> 
>    Theoretically, that's true. In Oregon you can even ask for triple
> damamges. We tried that once, but got nowhere. 

Sorry to hear that.  Besides reporting it to a federal agency that won't
do anything about it, it's all you can do.  

> The only person I know who made a little money from suing -- and
> stopped a portion of his fax spam -- is a Vancouver lawyer. He let me
> use his letter content, but since his letterhead showed the threat
> came from a lawyer, the spammers paid more attention to him than they
> did to me.

They pay even more attention to a lawsuit, a judgement, a lein or a
collection agent, than to a lawyer.

That said, maybe I could get my niece to write something up.



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