How to Receive Faxes Without a Fax Machine or Phone Line

Many of us might prefer to receive sensitive information via email than a piece of paper lying face upwards on your office fax machine, or at home. But relax, you don't need to guard the fax machine any more when you are expecting a confidential or a personal document. There is a solution called efax. You get a US number with a local area code. Any one can fax you anything it comes to your email inbox as an attachment. It stays there forever. you don't need to worry about paper, cartridge or privacy. You see the fax whenever you want to. If you think you need to print it, just hook your computer to a printer or go to a public library to do that.

Things You'll Need

• Email account
• Internet access
• Computer

Instructions

1. Go to www.efax.com.

2. Sign up for a free efax account.

3. Download a small software to your computer from efax.com (you will be prompted when you sign up) to be able to view the faxes that you will receive.

4. Pay an affordable monthly fee if you want a local number. The paid service also gets you a local fax number, but free service only gives you a randomly generated area code and only incoming faxed are allowed. With paid service you can also send faxes but you need a scanner for that.

5. Congratulations! you are all set to receive faxes. Now you may add that little fax number to your biasness card and no need to worry about confidentiality, printer or paper.

Tips & Warnings

• Put your fax number in your email signature so that your friends and family know your fax number.

• Make sure you have enough space in your email. Remember the faxes will come as attachments and some can be large. If there is no space in your inbox you won't receive faxes.

Resources

• Efax site