Unsolicited Fax

[padi56]

Perhaps some of you may have opted into the Facsimile Preference Service in the hope of stopping spams, scams and other unsolicited material. I have, for the last couple of years.

However, since the new year I've had about four or five of these little b@st@rds LATELY.





which I duly send back to the complaints dept. of the FPS.

It seems however, that, according to their FAQ...
Quote:
All complaints received will be acknowledged and processed by our complaint's team. We will write to the organisation involved requesting an explanation of why it has sent an unsolicited fax to a FPS registered number and ask them to remove the number from their fax lists. As the FPS have no enforcement powers, we will pass all the complaints received over to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), who are the UK independent supervisory authority reporting directly to the UK Parliament and responsible for enforcing the relevant regulations. It is the ICO's responsibility to look at non-compliant organisations and take appropriate action. If you wish to follow up on a complaint you have made, please contact the ICO directly. Their details can be found under the useful links section of the website.


So, they can't really do anything about it?? Unbefeckinglievable

In case you're not familiar with a fax like this it contains large areas of tone (not our Tone Blair surely?) and takes about five or six minutes to come through. Don't, whatever you do, reply as I believe you will be charged heavy duty rates on your phone bill.

The problem used to be with 0900 numbers but I've a suspicion that 0700 numbers are suspect too.

Barstewards..... get orf MF landline