Fax.com Fined $5.4M for Junk Faxes
The Federal Communications Commission issued a record fine of nearly $5.4 million Wednesday against a company for sending "junk faxes" to businesses and consumers.
The fine against Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Fax.com is the largest ever by the commission for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The law protects against unsolicited faxes, telemarketing calls and prerecorded messages, among other things.
"Fax.com appears to have founded its business on the practice of sending unsolicited faxes in flagrant violation" of the law, Kathleen Q. Abernathy, an FCC commissioner, said in statement. "Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend its ways."
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The FCC said it believes Fax.com "engaged in a pattern of deception to conceal its involvement in sending the prohibited faxes, and that the company has not been forthcoming in its dealings with the agency."
A lawyer for Fax.com, Mary Ann Wymore, said the company feels the rules on unsolicited advertising are an unconstitutional restriction of its freedom of speech. [Yahoo! News]
You hae to love the last line. Well, we got news for you Mary Ann Wymore, your client waste mine and everyone's time. Your client waste bandwidth. Your client waste the resources of the people to whom these ads are sent. It is not "permission based marketing." It is the work of SCUM. These SCUM ignored repeated warnings. They refused to cooperate with the FCC, and the FCC did the right thing!...mj
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