We have no laws that cover fax spam
Although Australia has a and a Spam Act which regulates unsolicited email and sms messages and a Do Not Call Register to which (private) fixed and mobile numbers can be added there is no legislation which covers unsolicited faxes at this stage.
At the time of writing, according to The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s website
The Government has recently announced its intention to expand the Do Not Call Register, to cover both business numbers and fax numbers. When this is implemented, it may reduce these types of calls being made where people register their numbers.
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Maybe we can hurry up legislation in relation to spam faxes by lodging complaints against spammers anyway. This is the complaint for at ASIC:
https://www.edge.asic.gov.au/008/complaintV006?get/complainant/t=6ae0d748309f3eedd1d8d637378517a879b26f5e
I just filled in one today for Big City Promotions, who have been relentlessly spamming me for months, despite all my efforts to stop them.
This unprofessional serial pest needs to be shut down.
Thanks Christine,
Great suggestion.
To clarify for others – use this address to complain to ASIC: https://www.edge.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/Lodgement/complaintV006/start/complainant (the address your sent was generated by the ASIC system in response to your specific complaint so if people use it they’ll get a ‘thanks for submitting your complaint message’).
we receiving four or five unsolicited faxes per day, some are deliberately designed to cause maximum damage
I have witted to them and requested them to remove our number but to avail.
Any help is welcome