I’m still getting comments every so often on my original article way back in January. So I’m updating some of the info on the stocks in question and on a couple other things I’ve found out.
I’ve received fewer junk faxes of late, just a couple have come to my attention over the last three months. So people may be finding out how to eliminate them, or the sleazy operators have found another racket. Maybe that explains the number of lotteries I’ve won lately.
As far as the stocks themselves go, even in this year of new Wall Street highs only 3 of 9 I’ve received have gone up, and three have seen their already all-but-worthless price cut in half again. You can look up the original seven on my initial post, the other two are Terra Nostra Resources Corporation (TNRO, got up to $2.88 on March 17 shortly after two separate faxes were received, now down to $2.13); and Viva World Trade, Inc. (VVWT, was 45 cents when checked on April 5 and is now 26 cents.)
The other thing I wanted to aggregate are all of the opt-out numbers. Perhaps someone with a few extra dollars to spare (or a very nice telephone company employee) can get the real owners behind all of these toll-free numbers, like who actually pays the bills. The list I have is as follows:
- (800) 308-1372 (from Sonora Associates)
- (800) 308-1390 (Hot Stocks on the Street, two different faxes from Pathfinder Marketing and Gemini Market News)
- (800) 571-0031 (Uptrend Finder, UTF Newsletter)
- (800) 910-3972 (Asian Investment Alert, Cyber Communications Services Ltd. and Gemini Market News)
- (800) 918-2902 (Hot Stocks on the Street Cyber Communications Services Ltd. and Gemini Market News)
- (866) 570-7730 (Green Stock Alert, Sonora Associates)
- (888) 416-6761 (On The Move Stock Alert, OTM Stock Alerts)
- (888) 607-7434 (Hot Stocks on the Street, Cyber Communications Services Ltd. and Gemini Market News)
On April 15 we got the last one I’m aware of. This was different from the rest, had no opt-out number or disclaimer, and was barely legible, I think it advocates a company called Fire Mountain Beverage Company and was from an outfit called “Stock Watch”. But the key was, also with the fax itself I found the automatic form our fax spits out every so often which shows faxes sent/received.
If you’ll recall, April 15 was a Sunday so our machine showed one incoming fax that day and this one had to be it (because our office was closed.) And, lo and behold, it actually had the number that the fax came from. So today I called the number and instead of a fax I got a business menu…unfortunately I couldn’t catch the name of the company but I suspect that this may be a situation where the fax and business number are the same.
Either way, here’s the number our fax sheet showed: (213) 514-5321.
It’s nice to at least get a piece of red meat for the many commentors on my article to take hold of. If you have any success let me know how this comes out! This has become an interesting little sideline for my website, which is about things that interest me and I’ve gotten interested in this phenomonon because of all the comments I’ve gotten on my original post.
I thought you can purchase spam blockers for fax machines?
I have received the same junk fax mail over the past two months -about 10 transmisions– from “Cyber Communications Services, Ltd.”
I read that a company with a similiar name has stated:
Cyber Communication Inc. is not affiliated with
Cyber Communications Services Ltd.!!
Cyber Communication, Inc. has been the victim of a fax broadcasting attack by a company with a very similar name, Cyber Communications Services Ltd. The company which is conducting the “pump and dump” fax broadcasting is based out of Afghanistan and has no relation or ties whatsoever to our company, Cyber Communication, Inc.
Is there anyway to STOP these unwanted faxes?
Every time a 800 number is called from a pay phone, owner of the 800 number is billed 65 cents.
Junkfax.org has alot of good info. Another option is to call protus Ip solutions. They are in a sense the mother company of alot of theses junk faxes. Their number is 1-888-733-0000 option 4. We used to receive several junk faxes a day now were down to 1-3 per month if that even. Still get a few odd balls that I’m not sure where they are coming from. Good Luck
this is diabolical grass roots and time consumming but if you have the time get even. HAVE FUN AND WATCH HOW FAST YOU GET A RESPONSE MOST TIMES…When I get a fax with a return Fax no. on it I fax them 100’S of faxes of junk ON THEIR DIME AND THEIR PAPER AND TIE UP THEIR LINE. I have actually had the idiots call back BEGGING ME TO STOP as I do leave my number ON the pages I send ALONG A MESSAGE THAT THEY KNOW HOW THEY CAN END ALL OF FAXES BY COMPLYING WITH MY REQUEST: 1ST GIVE ME YOUR NAME AND NUMBER, 2ND give me the name and telephone number of their company that is sending all of this junk for them (not the fax removal number) and when it occures again I start the process up again . MORE PEOPLE SHOULD TURN THE TABLES ON THEM IN THIS FASHION.
I just recently got on some junk email list, as I have had four in the last 2 weeks. I faxed them to the FCC per a suggestion I found on another blog, but I just got another one today, from Gemini/Pathfinder with only a phone number to call to opt out (877-231-5404). Any suggestions how I can get a fax number? Or better yet, how I can stop these? My fax is at home and can ring 24/7. Help!