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Behind The "Work-At-Home" Street Spam Signs
Sabalon writes: "If you live almost anywhere in the U.S. then you have probably seen tons of the 'Make thousands working at home' signs tacked up almost everywhere. Cockeyed.com has an interesting story of one persons quest to uncover the source behind all this money just waiting to be made, the company behind it (or not behind it for legal reasons), and an oversaturated market." Spam, just another medium.
While you're working at home, make sure to lose those extra, unsightly pounds! Burn the fat away!
here in the south bay, the 'make thousands from home' people appear to be paying people to put up thousands of 'lose 30 pounds in 30 days' signs.
now those are a mystery.
go get it
Here in Portland OR many people have taken up anti-spam measures. In Southeast Portland these signs don't last long before being torn down or, even better, defaced. A group has made giant stickers saying, "I AM UGLY LITTER" and pasted them over these "work from home/lose weight now" things. Very cool.
:)
Off-topic, billboard defacing is quite a sport here. You may have seen a March of Dimes billboard feature Daisy Fuentes and the tagline, "Daisy takes folic acid. Do you?" The "folic" has been blacked out on many of these
Off-off-topic, Kate Moss was featured on a billboard for milk some years ago, when she was doing the Calvin Klein "Obsession" ads. There was a huge photo of her with a white milk "moustache" and the tagline, "Calcium. It's my obsession." The following letters were paint-bombed out on several of them - "Cal" & "i" - needless to say, they were replaced pretty fast.
This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
Here in Columbus, somebody has methodically gone to every one of these signs and cut away the 'W' in 'WORK FROM HOME'.
I figure maybe Saruman's hiring, or they have some vacancies in those endless Warhammer armies.
All employees must wash hands before seeking equitable relief.
Have fun with your mom and her ill-gotten gains
BovineOne came up with this sign and this sign as a more modern alternative for all the work-at-home types out there.
Work at home the distributed.net way.
I lost 30 lbs in 30 days for 30 dollars! Ask me how!
Step 1: Assemble a surgical scapel and an industrial shop vac.
Step 2: [You don't really want to know. You can guess.]
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Dianetics?
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Cutting down the telephone poles did turn out to be a little short-sighted. It turns out that Edmonton businesses had relied heavily on communication, much of which took place over phone lines either as normal voice conversations or as Internet traffic.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Those are legit. You lose 30 pounds in 30 days by walking your ass all over town hanging more of the damn signs.
Try and catch the spammers in the act. If you see them photograph them. Get pictures of them posting signs. Get their license plates. Get their faces. Call the cops and tell them what you're doing & where you are. Also call your local paper or radio station and tell them you've got some of these folks in front of you, would they like the story?
:)
So you propose getting all Church of Scientology on their asses?
Once you have gathered about 200 or so, get some billboard plaster and glue them all to the front of Herbalife's corporate headquarters. :)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
PROFIT !!!
sulli
RTFJ.
When is someone going to do something about this plague of spam?
What is this, a group project?
I'll also note that you're now a whiney off-topic little bitch. Thank you.
"I saw one of those bumper stickers that said, 'Lose weight now. Ask me how.' So I asked him how. He said, 'Go on a diet, you fat pig.'"
-Bob Zany
With a little internet research, I was able find the Sally Mizatch, yet another success story in Herbalife's promotional material. Sally lived in Auburn, a small town near Sacramento. I gave Sally a call and told her what I was doing and ask if would have some time to meet. I drove up to Auburn on an early Saturday afternoon meet Sally at a local ice cream parlor. Sally arrived in a remarkably non-descript black Honda Civic. Sally was an attractive woman in her early 30's, a graduate of Chico State, a public university several hours from Sacramento. Sally had majored in business and had worked several years for starting with Herbalife. Sally has sold over $80,000 dollars of Herbalife products, last month alone, through a distribution network she set-up in Vietnam and parts of China. Sally invited me back to offices to observe her operations. Sally's office turned out to be a Motel 6 outside of town. Inside her motel room she offered me a drink, while she slipped into something more comfortable. Not knowing where this was leading I hesitated to remove any clothing and instead gulped by Scotch and poured another. Sally came out where a red silk teddy and sat down next to me. I slowly ran my hand up the inside of her thigh to find a large sac containing 2 walnut sized balls and rather large, partially aroused, cock. Not wanting to miss my opportunity for the story of the century, I quickly dropped to my knees went to town on Sally's cock. Sally if you are out there please call me back...
This reminds me of TheSpark's Fat Project, in which, inspired by one of those signs, the author gets two people to try to gain 30 pounds in 30 days. Worth a read.
Someone here in Minneapolis made stickers that say "SCAM," and posts them over the last 4 digits of the phone number.
Posting the signs on utility poles is illegal in the first place, but rarely enforced.