One of my biggest pet peeves (yes, there are many…) are broadcast faxers.  Broadcast faxes are stupid.  Plain and simple.  I get solicited for health care (which I don’t think my employees would appreciate if I started picking health care plans based on un-solicited faxes), accounting services, toner ink refills (even though they are WASTING my toner by faxing me), but the fax I received today took the cake and the putz of the week award. 

Here is the title: GET PAID FOR FAXES! By filling out a simple form including my contact name, my business name, address, email address, etc., I can get paid $0.50 per EACH fax that I receive and submit back to the Get Paid For Faxes folks.  As with EVERY get rich quick scheme, there are rules, including, the fax you submit cannot be a stock or investment fax which happens to be 90% of the faxes I get.  It’s all very structured and looks so legit on that faxed sheet of paper.

Here’s my favorite part.  The last line: To submit your faxes for payment, simply write your name and phone number on the received fax and fax it (the fax number listed).  So, wait, without a 1099 or anything, you’re just going to to send me a check for $0.50 if I fax you all of the garbage that was faxed to me? 

Here’s the scam: they get your contact name, they get your email address, they get your business address, etc. and verify your fax number.  The sole purpose… to send you more garbage. Give it up! The worst part of all of this: people must fall for it or they wouldn’t still be doing this right? Scary.

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