I got a 4 page fax today addressed to someone else with my fax number. It’s supposed to be for someone in room 220 and looks like work plans.
Usually I call to let people know they sent the fax to the wrong place, but this looks suspiciously fake because there no company name to or from anywhere, no hand writing and it looks computer generated. Because it was a long distance call I called the listed voice number back collect, but both 1800COLLECT and 1800CALLATT would not allow a collect call to be placed through.
So is this some kind of telemarketing trick that when you call the number it gives you a telemarketing spiel? Has anyone encountered this? And what type of numbers automatically do not accept incoming collect calls?
Many, many businesses have automatic collect-call blocking, so this in itself isn’t suspicious. It’s not tied to whichever long distance company that you try calling from, but rather to the phone company of the company that’s doing the blocking. For example here in Michigan, Ameritech can do auto-blocking of collect calls, prison calls, and “unknown” calls, all for a price, of course.
Did the “work plans” have anything that resembled advertising? If not, I don’t see how the scam would work, unless it was somebody who benefits by wasting your paper/toner/ink/electricity/wear-and-tear.
Even the fake misdirected-faxes we get make it easy to call the sender back, ostensibly to order something.