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Category Archives: faxes of note

Ex-SEC lawyer accused of stock scam - Used Junk faxes to pump up the Price Of Shares and then Dumped them

This is a very interesting article about and SEC attorney and companies he helped pump stock prices and scam investors out of hundreds of thousands dollars for shares in their bogus companies. Of course they always come down to email or the favorite weapon of pump and dump stock schemes - junk or spam [...]

Posted 16 June 2007 † admin § broadcast fax § junk fax § notorious faxes § spam fax ‡ Comments (0)

Alberta businessman receiving misdirected financial faxes from bank

Misdeeds and mistakes haunt the fax world.  
The Bank of Montreal has learned the hard way that simply dropping the number “1″ in a fax transmission can electronically ricochet the private financial information of its customers into the great unknown. Edmonton businessman Rob Tate said he has been telling BMO he has been receiving [...]

Posted 08 June 2007 † admin § notorious faxes ‡ Comments (0)

False fax allows US prison escape

Almost forgot to post this one.   
Timothy Rouse, 19, was being held on charges of assault and robbery.
The fax ordering his release claimed to be from the state supreme court, but was riddled with spelling errors and had no letterhead.
Police found Rouse two weeks later at his mother’s house after prison authorities [...]

Posted 03 June 2007 † admin § notorious faxes ‡ Comments (0)

Sex, Lies and Video Porn

This is a fantastic story and it gives me great pleasure to be able to post it, since it has a significant fax component to it, that is in fact a myth.  Interesting to say the least. Beyond that there are some interesting legal ramifications as well as a human story of revenge, con [...]

Posted 30 May 2007 † admin § notorious faxes ‡ Comments (0)

Promotional Fax Mistaken for Bomb Threat

  This is just silly, but a perfect example of a notorious fax. Of course using an Internet Fax service could have avoided this problem.
The branch manager of the Bank of America called police about 10 a.m. after receiving a fax containing images of a lit match and a bomb with a fuse, bank [...]

Posted 30 May 2007 † admin § notorious faxes ‡ Comments (0)