This guy did a lot of work on his signs!

I found around 15 of these signs stapled to wooden posts outside both entrances to Moffett Field, a small military base here.

The spammer looks like he did a lot of work on his signs.
They are around 18" x 24", have the printed sign attached to cardboard, and the spammer enclosed each sign in a thick plastic cover.

I am keeping one at home as a souvenir.



If the picture doesn't show, the signs read:
Homeowners / Cash in 10 days
Cash / Payment / $10,000 $45.61
All Credit Ok!
(Phone number)
Se Habla Espanol
Quick Time Home Loans...

It's more satisfying the more the signs cost the spammer, yes?

Hey, are they still flying those Orions out of Moffet every half-hour or so? Last time I was out there, you could set your watch by the takeoffs.

Redstone

These are all over Southern California, too. Usually put up in large quantity in low-income areas.

I've ripped down a number of them. Good news is that they are printed so cheaply that the 800 number fades out completely after the briefest exposure to the elements. Makes for a rather humorously ineffective piece of spam.

PS: Is Moffett in N. California?

Thanks.

"It's 10 p.m. Do you know what Dumpster your street spam is sleeping in?"

Moffett Field
Moffett Field is near Mountain View, California, about 40 miles south of San Francisco.

Most of the Navy has left Moffett and the P-3's no longer fly there.
There are some military reserve units located there, including an Air Force rescue unit.
Also there are still a post exchange and a commissary.

My guess is that the sign poster noticed that his signs were fading or washing out in rain, so he encased the ones I found in plastic.
I assume that plastic covers would be pretty effective but the signs weren't up that long to test.

Gozer,

The exact signs shown in your photo are back up again, and in very large quantities in Orange County and Long Beach. This time, the spammer has put up about 4-6 signs each at dozens of major freeway offramps. They are also tacked up on chain link fences (usually in poorer neighborhoods an in quantities of up to 10 per fence).

I believe hundreds of these signs are up in Southern California (I couldn't get to many this weekend, since there were Tattoo Expo signs to yank).

The freeway off-ramps are clearly state property, and I would hope Caltrans would remove the signs and fine the spammer (I am going to lodge a complaint on the Caltrans website today).

I spoke with a Caltrans manager a few weeks ago and he made the excellent point that drivers reading illegal signs posted on the freeways are distracted and could cause an accident.

Let's make short work of this scam by yanking the signs as quickly as possible.

"It's 10 p.m. Do you know what Dumpster your street spam is sleeping in?"

Gozer, are you seeing a re-infestation in your part of California?

Here in the Orange County and Long Beach areas, this spammer most commonly puts about 6-8 up on freeway offramps (only occassionally do they appear on telephone poles or fencese; freeway exits seem to be the venue of choice).

I removed about 50 this weekend. They are exactly as you described: printed sheet of paper glued to cardboard and encased in plastic wrap. Rather over-engineered for sunny California

"It's 10 p.m. Do you know what Dumpster your street spam is sleeping in?"

The sign poster is psychic?
California has had a lot of rain in the last 3 weeks.

I found some more at different off-ramps but they were several weeks old, also had some water damage.