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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.
1-800-GOT-JUNK isn't a scam -- it's a real, hugely successul business.
$3-15k a customer? Is that per franchise, or per person being matched by the service?
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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.
They probably are doing a lot of little illegal somethings. The issue is that each violation is minor and each "victim" has no idea of the scope of the operation -- so it's natural to just throw away the sign. This is the sort of pathology that has prompted the creation of class action lawsuits and the national do-not-call registry.
I cannot believe there is someone else on the internet who shares my hometown. Literally, Nowhere, USA. And one who found those signs as baffling as I did. Astonishing.
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.
I was wondering what the background was also, as those signs are posted everywhere around where I live. Great investigation. Even if the article wasn't worth reading (which it was), the first (and so far, only) comment is worth it alone: "You are the Upton Sinclair of lawn signs"
thanks yan
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1-800-GOT-JUNK isn't a scam -- it's a real, hugely successul business.
What about the "earn $3,000/month from HOME!" signs?