- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
This works awesome in offices, libraries, and schools if you have a fax available. The prank originally came about when I started my first web design company and got my first fax machine. Toner is expensive as -blam!-, as some of you office people know, and fax paper is a pain in the wallet, too.
SO, restaraunts and businesses offering office supplies and whatnot always send you -blam!- like 3 days after you hook the machine up (dont ask me how they get your fax numebr so quick), and waste your toner and paper and tie up your line with their spam bull-blam!-. So here's the easy payback:
1. Print out a sheet of solid [color=black]black[/color]. Save it, you'll use it every time.
2. Get the victim's faxx0r numb0r. After you recieve these faxes, the number from which the fax came is usually on your fax log, on the top of the sheet, or if you can't find one, simply call the company and ask for their fax number, claiming to be sending a detailed order over for them to review or some such nonsense.
3. Place this evil sheet of black doom in the fax, set it to dial, and send. This wastes an assload of their toner, takes up all their fax machine's memory, and ties up their line (the transmission of a solid black sheet takes a while.)
4. (Optional) If you're a boss or on lunch and have spare time, reinsert the black sheet several times over the course of an hour. Yeah, you're killing trees, but tangible spam is simply unacceptable. Perhaps moreso than electronic spam.
Some other situations in which you may want to implement this prank:
---Kinko's likes to overcharge for copies by almosy 80% of the copy price. Get the fax for a local Kinko's and murder them back with FAX POWER!
---Didn't get accepted to that university you applied to? -blam!- 'em. Send the dean your new, solid black transcripts. Remember, transcripts are sometimes multiple pages long, and don't forget that 50 page application letter!
---(DONT DO THIS FROM A TRACEABLE LOCATION) I did this once in the 11th grade. It actually worked. I got a jaywalking ticket, and I was pretty pissed. So I called a police precinct and asked for homicide, carefully noting the name of the individual who answered, Sgt. Soandso. I then preceded to call the number of the precinct which issued me the ticket and asked again for homicide. When the person on the other end answered, I responded with , "Hey this is Sgt. Soandso over in West Somwhere, we need your fax number. I'm sending over the photos you guys asked for." She gave me the number. So I faxed them a highly contrast enhanced photo I found on the internet of about 30 kids crossing the street from a museum or something, NOT USING A CROSSWALK, with the text "Crosswalks are for -blam!-es. We won't let the man keep us down with his white lined street tyranny!" I sent it from an anonymous internet fax service, don't remember the site. You can also do this from libraries, copy centers, or even just ask a gullible accountant or realtor to use their fax real quick for 1 page of meyhem.