Consumers are angry about unsolicited fax advertisements.
Federal regulators are taking aim at businesses that deluge consumers with unsolicited faxes, after receiving more than a thousand complaints about the problem in the past year. Armed with a new enforcement bureau to take action against those that violate consumer protection laws, the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it has been issuing citations to a number of vendors for sending unsolicited faxes to consumers and businesses. Unsolicited faxing prohibited That act, and the FCC rules implementing the law, limit or prohibit unsolicited advertisements that use automatic telephone dialing systems or fax machines. The unsolicited faxes tie up consumers' machines and waste their paper, the commission says. In the case of Get-Aways, the FCC documented 19 violations of the law after the company had received a warning in July that it could be subject to fines.