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These signs are basically physical spam. They're also popular with the kind of scammers who buy old people's houses for cash, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK. I yank them out whenever I find them.
I wonder how much of the company's secrecy is a reaction to the expected illegality of placing these lawn signs. I see them frequently on municipal or state property, and I'm sure they are frequently removed by public works crews. If cities could easily find the person responsible and bring littering/vandalism/whatever fines against the parent company, this business model would be nonviable. I suspect the system of s…
Sign up with your information, when they start asking you for money, serve them with papers.
Lookup the Whois record; if it's a proxy, subpoena them. Repeat until you have the real company.
etc, etc.
I wonder how much of the company's secrecy is a reaction to the expected illegality of placing these lawn signs. I see them frequently on municipal or state property, and I'm sure they are frequently removed by public works crews. If cities could easily find the person responsible and bring littering/vandalism/whatever fines against the parent company, this business model would be nonviable. I suspect the system of s…
I doubt it would be difficult to track these people down if they were doing something illegal. There are a number of strategies: Sign up with your information, when they start asking you for money, serve them with papers. Lookup the Whois record; if it's a proxy, subpoena them. Repeat until you have the real company. etc, etc.
These signs are basically physical spam. They're also popular with the kind of scammers who buy old people's houses for cash, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK. I yank them out whenever I find them.
1-800-GOT-JUNK isn't a scam -- it's a real, hugely successul business.
Great work!
One example: you've got companies that do zip and email submits for $1-2 a lead, and their incentive is a free $500 gas card. So make a website that redirects to the offer and print out stickers or other physical media with the offer and the site. Then pay someone to go around to gas stations and put the stickers on the gas pump handles.