Is there a way to receive faxes for free online?

Question

Perhaps using my existing yahoo email account? I REALLY need to receive a fax from someone.... any way you can think of short of buying a fax machine.

Answer 1

I've had good experiences with eFax.

www.efax.com

They have a free account option. You do have to download their software (free) to see the eFax, however.

The way it works is that they give you a fax #. When someone sends you a fax there, it automatically gets digitized and forwarded to your email address. From your email, you receive it as an attachment which you can view/print from your computer.

Keep in mind that the fax # they give you will likely be some area code far away so the sender might have to dial long distance to send the fax. Another thing I learned the hard way is that if you go over your monthly limit of pages per month (20 pages per fax #), they will shut down your fax # or ask you to upgrade to a paid account. If you don't go over, you're fine.

The only negative about the eFax is that they send a lot of emails to you trying to get you to upgrade your service. If you don't mind hitting "delete," it's better than paying for a fax machine and tying up your phone line to get a fax.

It's very reliable and it also makes it easy to file your faxes electronically on your computer instead of a hard copy fax.

Answer 2

You can try Efax http://www.efax.com Or, http://www.winfax.com

The other solution would be for the person to include the fax as an attachment and send it to you in your yahoo email.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Have them scan whatever the fax is onto there computer and send it to your email as an attachment. Then you can print at will, and it is free.