My submission with my petition against the JFPA (S.714)
Submitted at Sign our petition against the JFPA (S.714)
I am so tired of unsolicited faxes as it is. Once every business I have contact with can junk fax me, my fax machine will be abused just like my e-mail:
I am currently receiving about 200 - 300 unsolicited e-mails per day, thank you Congress!
I just love those exciting offers for viagra and penis enlargements, which I will no doubt receive on my fax machine as soon as you legalize junk faxes. After all, I’ve ordered online from many companies who sell many thousands of different products and they will then LEGALLY junk fax to me.
Rather than trying to put honest and hardworking small business people out of business, I’d really appreciate it if the legislators would focus on ENFORCEMENT of existing laws.
The mortgage junk faxes are not only sent in violation of the TCPA, but they violate just about any mortgage advertising law on the book. Notably, the California Department of Real Estate REFUSED to investigate one of my junk fax complaints and it has failed to do anything at all about several others.
Recently I received one of the most despicable mortgage junk faxes ever. It didn’t look like a mortgage advertisement, it was falsely presented as an article about how to save money. After ordering the promised free report, I got a call from a loan agent for Central Pacific Mortgage. The free report was a hook to get my phone number.
I subsequently contacted the Executive Office for the president of Central Pacific, Mr. John Courson. From his bio:
“He has also been a member of the Residential Board of Governors (RESBOG) and Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG). Previously, he has served as Chairman of RESBOG, MBA’s Legislative Steering Committee, MBA’s State and Local Liaison Committee and Mortgage Reform Task Force. Courson has also served as President of the California Mortgage Bankers Association and Michigan Mortgage Bankers Association, and as a Director of the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association.
Recently, he was called upon for his expertise and appointed to Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Housing Finance Agency by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
Despite repeated attempts to illicit any kind of explanation from Mr. Courson, he simply ignored me. He is rich and powerful and he doesn’t have to lower himself to respond to me.
This is what I have to put up with under the current legislation. What am I going to do when I get ** 300 ** junk faxes per day?
Disconnect my fax? Stop doing business? Get a new secret fax # just for clients?
Sincerely,
Christine Baker
Comments:
*** Absolutely NO SPAM! A $50 handling and removal fee applies to each advertisement and occasionally I feature an advertised site as the scam it is.
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