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Behind The "Work-At-Home" Street Spam Signs

Posted by Hemos on from the tracking-down-the-man-with-the-plan dept.

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.

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  1. what mystery? by macsox · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:what mystery? by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have been meaning to post parody signs, but I'm too lazy to do it. I was going to post: "Lose 30 dollars in 30 days, gauranteed. Call 1-800-FAT-SCAM". Would somebody please do this for me?

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    2. Re:what mystery? by curunir · · Score: 5, Funny

      30 pounds is actually $43.16 at today's exchange rate...their scam is better.

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  2. Anti-spam by legLess · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Anti-spam by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

      in Mesa Arizona there is a huge "Bank of America" building (well huge compared to the rest of the buildings around it) for about a month the sign visable from 10-12 miles around the city had "Bank o" lights burned out. So the highest sign in all the city at night light up bright as "f America"

      I thought it was funny anyway.

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    2. Re:Anti-spam by WinDoze · · Score: 4, Funny

      Shell Station, Route 1 southbound, Peabody (next to what used to be the Towne Line House, it's something esle now, I forget what). I swear for almost a year in the early 90's the "S" was burned out. Big giant glowing "HELL" hanging over the highway. We used to sing "Highway to Hell" every time we drove past.

  3. Ork from Home by ArsSineArtificio · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:Here's page 2 by ziriyab · · Score: 5, Funny
    My dad's a drug dealer. We make lots of money, and that's just with 2 hrs a day. Year before last we made $3,000,000.00, because so many people have been victimized by my dad.

    Have fun with your mom and her ill-gotten gains

  5. Mystery Solved!!! by 4of12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.]

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  6. Re:I don't know about you... by PD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dianetics?

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  7. Re:I don't know about you... by tps12 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Here in Edmonton, there is an interesting solution. Along the Whyte Avenue area where there's tons of pedestrian traffic, there are specific posting poles. They're cut down telephone poles there specificly for the purpose of posting flyers/ads. There's also the new decorative lightposts that were put up that they've asked people to not post on. Actually seems to be working fairly well..

    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.

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  8. Nah, those are no mystery by sheetsda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those are legit. You lose 30 pounds in 30 days by walking your ass all over town hanging more of the damn signs.

  9. Step 3 by sulli · · Score: 4, Funny

    PROFIT !!!

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  10. These spam signs are hideous!! by cporter · · Score: 5, Funny
    I hate these street signs! They're everywhere! Telling you what to do! "Yield" and "Stop" and "Do Not Enter" and "No Left Turn"!

    When is someone going to do something about this plague of spam?

  11. Re:Here's Page 3 by Art+Tatum · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is this, a group project?