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• Actions to Enforce Federal Unsolicited Fax Law
• How to Make Junk Faxers Pay You
• Spam King Loses Junk-Fax Suit
• Levine v. 9 Net Ave & Concentric
• Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South
• Hooters of Augusta
  • http://troubleshooter.com/data/columns/junkfaxergetsfined.htm
  • http://www.junkfaxes.org/news/hooters.htm
• Houston Cellular
  • http://www.faxdirections.com/houston.htm [Wayback archive]
• Blastfax
  • http://web2.iadfw.net/gpsolo/Consumer%20Law.htm

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Orders/1995/fcc95310.txt (FCC page)

http://www.imc.org/imc-spam/smallclaims.html

http://www.markwelch.com/faxlaw.htm

http://www.junkfaxes.org/federal_law.htm

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/other/junkfaxes/

Current news about prosecutions against junk faxers: http://www.junkfaxes.org/

State statutes affecting email (current as of 1999... more have been passed): http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/statutes/email/state.html

Maryland Office of the Attorney General -- cease and desist and lawsuit threat: http://www.oag.state.md.us/Press/2001/041001.htm

Mentions $500 fine per complaint for Nebraska: http://www.imarketinc.com/data/opendata/tele.asp

Mentions prosecution of a fax blaster and gives addresses for complaints: http://www.mb.bbb.org/mem/19991204.html

Story about state prosecuting an offender: http://www.latimes.com/travel/insider/20001008/t000095962.html [Wayback archive]

Florida laws against unsolicited faxes: http://legal.firn.edu/consumer/tips/tipfax.html

Carrier that prosecutes junk faxers and acts on junk fax complaints: http://www.terabyte.net/Title47.htm

Consumer lawsuit against junk faxers: http://consumerwatchdog.org/ftcr/nw/nw001441.php3

From the "New York Law Journal": http://www6.law.com/ny/tech/091597s1.html

California law: http://www.bbbsouthland.org/topic195.html

Consumer protection group page, mentions laws: http://www.badads.org/fax.shtml

In fact, lots of marketing groups are warning against the practice and no longer support it because it can get the sender AND the parent company in trouble: http://www.nwmls.com/NwIntraNet/references/bulletins/146.html

Guilty parties:

• Fax-a-Million CD-Rom: http://www.hyperfax.net/faxamillion.htm
  • sold by hyperfax: http://www.hyperfax.net/
  • 301-528-3800
  • denied they were still selling this product
• InfoUSA
  • identified as party selling customized fax listing
  • spoke to Pat (a man) in the Business Update Dept at 402-930-3500 on 8/16/2001
  • indicated our number was listed, but not as a consumer... seemed to be saying it wasn't listed as a fax number either
  • clients get updated lists every 30 days and aren't supposed to be re-using numbers (how often?)

Washinton State anti-spam law:

• how to collect damages: http://www.wa-state-resident.com/tugpayup.htm

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