Fax messages
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pete_fpl
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Fax messages
I receive a few fax messages from marketing companies every month or so. I'm curious why, and how, I get these.
Re: Fax messages
From a company in Richmond Hill? I just posted a message in 'General Discussion' before seeing this. I started getting them about a month or so ago. A friend of mine who rarely uses his FPL number gets them too. I doubt he's ever given the number out to anyone. So who is leaking FPL numbers to these people I wonder?
Re: Fax messages
I very much doubt anyone is giving out your number. It is probably either someone you have called in the past, them calling a wrong number, or them using a shotgun method of spamming.tweener wrote:From a company in Richmond Hill? I just posted a message in 'General Discussion' before seeing this. I started getting them about a month or so ago. A friend of mine who rarely uses his FPL number gets them too. I doubt he's ever given the number out to anyone. So who is leaking FPL numbers to these people I wonder?
FPL being owned by Fibernetics might be one explanation.
Fibernetics is (AFAIK) mainly for businesses, so many of the numbers that Fibernetics have will be in use by businesses. A quick look on this page http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_pr ... p?ocn=464D will give you the NPA-NPXs that Fibernetics own (and FPL also uses). So now someone who wants to spam businesses have a big list of NPA-NPXs which have a high possibility of getting a company. Now they just start spamming those numbers. Take my number 613-366-xxxx. They can get the NPA-NPX from that list, now I have a 1:1000 chance of getting a fax from them. Once they know the fax actually gets sent, they will keep that number to send to again. If your friend is on the same NPA-NPX, then there is a 1:500 chance they will get one of your numbers, which isnt all that high.
I have probably over thought this
but if wanted to spam companies with faxes, then I would probably look into something like this rather than randomly calling any number. At least this route would better give me a chance of getting my intended target. Unfortunately they won't much care if they bother residential people.