I’ve been getting a lot of "legit" spam lately. By that I mean junk e-mail from companies I have never done business with, offering products I don’t care about, but that are real companies. We’re talking about seminars, audio courses, and the like.

These people give an 800 (or 877) number to call, and an 800 (or 877) number to fax for more info.

I plan to take advantage of them. (I tried the unsubscribe link in the e-mail, but it generates a message "Unable to connect to database server. Please try again later.Host ‘healthcareaudioinfo.com’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server."

So here’s the plan: I’m going to fax them a letter telling them, politely, how I feel. Politely, and detailed. And, just to be sure they can read it, I’m going to send it in a large font. Sure, that may add some pages, but I want to be sure they get the message.

And, so they understand why I don’t like this, I’ll include the full text of the CAN-SPAM act (also in large print). And to be extra sure, I’ll include translations in several languages.

This is no problem for me because I’m just cutting and pasting into a Word document that I’ll send via WinFax overnight. (Gosh, I hope I don’t screw up with WinFax and accidentally send it over and over. But it’s been a while since I dusted off my fax-modem.)

Finally, as I can’t receive faxes, I’ll make sure the transmit ID on the ones I send is a working number: That of another spammer. Let them keep one another busy.

If you’re interested, here are the phone and fax numbers of these spammers:

Phone

800-223-8720 (multiple spam)

800-474-1994 (multiple spam)

800-561-5736

800-223-8720

Fax

800-508-2592 (multiple spam)