Junk Faxes

A junk fax is like a piece of junk mail, except you pay for the printing costs. It’s an advertisement that you did not request or consent to receive that arrives via your fax machine. Junk faxing wastes our time and resources at home and at the office.

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Unwanted Faxes fact sheet (PDF) outlines the rules about sending unsolicited advertisements via fax machines.

Junk faxing can cause:

• Blocked Communication. All fax machine owners can have important communications disrupted by junk faxes.
• Shifted Costs, Environmental Waste. Junk fax recipients pay for wasted paper as well as the ink and electricity required to print the unwanted ads.
• Lost Business. A fax machine cannot receive orders and other business correspondence when junk faxes tie up its phone line.
• Lost Sleep. Some automated junk fax systems ring fax numbers day and night. The ringing can wake people who have fax machines at home.
• Lost Time. Faxes are potentially urgent documents, but a junk fax is a let down and a waste of time. Often, junk faxes have no business name or address, and even if there is a number to call to be removed from the transmitter’s list, it takes up a lot of time to call for every ad received.

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