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My office still gets spam faxes to this day. The paper and toner only add up to a few cents a month, so it's not worth doing anything about.

I knew a realtor that had a sheet of black paper with a few choice expletives written on it that they would send back to spammers. There was an art to taping it into a loop so it would continuously feed. This was a few decades ago when a the spam faxes could cost more than a stamp.

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My desk phone at an old job used to get dialed by a fax machine. Not fun picking that up. I redirected it to a virtual fax line and it turns out it was a local clinic faxing medical records. I faxed them back with some message about you have the wrong number but they never stopped.

If you really wanted to make them stop, you might find a contact for their lawyer and make HIPAA noises at them ;)

I considered it. That was after my time in hospital IT. Really I wanted to stop getting my eardrums blown out by a robot. Luckily I happened to be working at a phone company so changing my number just took a couple clicks.

My dad used to receive a lot of misdirected faxes.

His solution was to send a return fax with disorderly handwriting begging and pleading for them to fax someone else.

The other person stopped faxing him.

I was using a virtual fax service so a digital equivalent would have been easy. Not sure if I was creative enough to invert the colors before sending my response. Really I just wanted the noise to stop.