Troubleshooting Your eFax Account

If you’re having trouble with your eFax^® account, we are here to help. Find helpful answers to some of our more common questions below. If you do not see your issue addressed, or if you need further assistance, call Customer Service at (800) 958-2983.

I am Not Receiving Faxes
The most common reason for not receiving faxes is listing the wrong email address for receiving faxes in your Account Preferences.

To verify the email address at which you are receiving faxes:

1. Log in to eFax MyAccount.
2. Click Update Account.
3. Click the Preferences tab.
4. Click Edit beside Receive Email Addresses.
5. Edit the email address as listed, or enter a new email address in any available blank field.
6. Click Update.

Be sure to add [email protected] to your email account’s address book in order to prevent messages being accidentally routed to a spam folder. It is also a good idea to add a second email address through a different email provider to receive faxes should there ever be an issue with your email provider’s ability to deliver messages to you.

People Are Having Trouble Sending Faxes to Me

In most cases, a sender’s inability to send a fax to your eFax® number is the result of misdialing, or if dialing outside of the UK, using the wrong international number format.

For example, if your eFax number is 44-151-555-1212:

• Senders in the United Kingdom would dial 0151-555-1212.
• Senders outside the United Kingdom would dial their country’s international code followed by 44-151-555-1212.

I am Receiving Faxes from an Unknown Number

When a fax is listed as coming from UNKNOWN, it means the sender’s fax machine was not set up to transmit a Caller ID properly, if at all. Unfortunately, if the Caller ID is not transmitted, there is no identifier for the eFax® system to display.

I am Receiving Junk Faxes or Spam Faxes
If you receive a junk fax, please take the following steps:

1. If the fax contains a phone number, fax number or other contact information to “unsubscribe,” please contact the sender and request to be removed from their list.
2. If you are unable to “unsubscribe”, you may submit the offending fax to us online using this form. We will attempt to prevent further transmission of junk faxes from the source.