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Unsubscribe a Fax Number the Right Way

Unsubscribe a Fax Number the Right Way

Unsubscribing from an annoying spam fax sender can be a frustrating and time-consuming process, but it is important to take the necessary steps to protect your privacy and stop unwanted faxes. If you do it the wrong way, you’ll just get more faxes and more disturbances.

How to Unsubsribe a Fax Number

Before we dive into the steps to unsubscribe, it is important to understand why calling or faxing back to the spam number will only result in more spam faxes.

Spam fax services often use automated systems to send out unsolicited faxes. It costs spammers pennies to bother you with faxes and there are little to no consequences. When you call or fax back to the number, you are confirming to the system that your fax number is active and can receive faxes. This, in turn, leads to an increase in the number of spam faxes you receive. It is not uncommon for people to start receiving several spam faxes a day after responding to a single spam fax.

The best way to combat spam faxes is to sign up for Thatch. You can block numbers so that they can never contact you again. They never know anything about it, and you never have to worry about it. The benefit of this is that you are not added to an active number list so you will get less unwanted faxes over time.

Steps to Unsubscribe a Fax Number

Unsubscribing from a spam fax service takes patience and persistence.

It is important to remember that calling or faxing back to the spam number will only result in more spam faxes, don’t do it. It’s best to follow the steps outlined above to protect your privacy and stop unwanted faxes. If you continue to receive spam faxes after taking these steps, consider just switching to Thatch. If you have never used an online fax service before, here is how an eFax works. Its the easiest way to stop this problem, you can send/ receive faxes through your email, and can block numbers in your account.

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