lhmwebdesign.com

Lost Highway Media are a design and development company in Arlington, Texas.

Lost Highway Media specialise in developing modern, responsive, standards-compliant websites with a focus on excellence. You can imagine my shock and surprise that a company, with such high standards, has to resort to spamming random email addresses to get business.

After waiting a few days I decided it would be best to follow-up with Lost Highway Media. I let them know spamming random email addresses probably didn't convey the professionalism they thought it might. Especially since they were advertising their ability to get websites to rank better in search engines.

SEO or "search engine optimisation" is the art of getting websites to rank better for specific keywords so people looking for them end up on a particular website.

Lost Highway Media appreciated my advice.

As with most spammers, I wanted to establish where Lost Highway Media got my email address, this didn't go down well with Brian at Lost Highway Media. Apparently my reply to his unsolicited email spam was bothering him.

I'll follow up after the holidays.

Spamming in Texas

The Texas Attorney General is the state's chief legal officer and is responsible for policing spam, scams and online safety as part of their Consumer Protection responsibilities.

Texas enacted legislation in June 2003 requiring that unsolicited commercial e-mail messages include a label ("ADV:" or "ADV: ADULT ADVERTISEMENT") at the beginning of the subject line, and a functioning return e-mail address for opt-out requests, which must be honored. The law prohibits unsolicited commercial messages with falsified routing information. False, deceptive, or misleading subject lines are prohibited in all commercial e-mail messages, as is the unauthorized use of a third party's domain name.

Update

I'll update here once I find out how Brian at Lost Highway Media of Arlington, Texas got my personal information.

Lists of known spammers

• admiss.fr/spam.php
• reaganator.com/spamlist

Receipts

• Websniffer
• DNS

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Initial Email + Notes

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removeme.php linking the two sites

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Whois for losthighwaymedia.com

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Whois for lhmwebdesign.com with last update shortly before the spamming

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Spamtrap

List of email addresses

Email Chain

From: Brian Burns 
Sent: 03 October 2022 04:24
To: ec2-abuse@amazon.com 
Cc: Keith Greer 
Subject: Re: Your AWS Abuse Report [52527875652]
I appreciate your timely response. The offending URL is https://keithgreer.dev/brian-burns-lost-highway-media-spam.
Mr. Greer is indicating on his public-facing website (hosted with Amazon AWS) that I sent him unsolicited spam emails, including one containing a vulgarity. That is not the case.
Earlier this year I discovered that some person or persons, probably overseas scammers, were sending out "phishing" emails representing themselves to be me and my company, Lost Highway Media. The senders of these emails apparently had a domain pointing to my IP address. I believe Mr. Greer received one of those emails; however, my domain is losthighwaymedia.com, and the originating email domain Greer is showing on his website, although redacted in red, is clearly not losthighwaymedia.com. I don't use email marketing, spam, nor any form of unsolicited communication - I never have and I never will.
The website Keith Greer has published with the false information about me and my company is coming up at the #3 organic position for Google search on my company name, Lost Highway Media, and obviously, that has the potential to be devastating to my business and my livelihood. I found an email for Mr. Greer through a Spokeo search, but cannot get a response from him regarding this issue (I have copied him on this exchange at that email address).
I'm not trying to cause hardship for Mr. Greer as I believe he did receive spam email(s) from someone pretending to be me or pretending to represent my company. However, since it is clear the email(s) did not originate from me or my business domain, I respectfully request that you either have Mr. Greer take the website down immediately or take the initiative on your end to deactivate the website's hosting account.
Your time and consideration in this matter are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Brian Burns
www.losthighwaymedia.com
(214) 354-1861

From: Brian Burns brian@losthighwaymedia.com
Sent: 30 September 2022 22:46
To: Keith Greer keithgreer@outlook.com
Subject: Inquiry
Keith,
So sorry to bother you, but are you the owner of the domain/website keithgreer.dev?
Brian K. Burns

From: Keith Greer k--------r@o------k.com
Sent: 25 November 2021 18:41
To: Brian Burns brian@lhmwebdesign.com
Subject: Re: Your Website
I'm not having a tantrum, and to be fair, you're the one spamming people during their holidays.
I just want to establish how you got hold of my personal information, which I think is a reasonable request from someone who felt comfortable using it to send unsolicited email marketing.
I'm not American btw, this is a normal Thursday evening for me.
We can catch up after your holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving
Keith
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From: Brian Burns brian@lhmwebdesign.com
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2021 6:31:17 PM
To: Keith Greer k--------r@o------k.com
Subject: Re: Your Website
It's Thanksgiving. Don't you have family or friends to be spending it with rather than having a kindergarten temper tantrum over an email and fucking with the person who sent it? I've removed you from my mailing list so you won't receive any more. Now go have Thanksgiving.
On Nov 25, 2021, at 12:26 PM, Keith Greer k--------r@o------k.com wrote:
Can I ask how you got hold of my personal information?
Did you buy a spam list of unsuspecting victims or gather it off another website?
Thanks
Keith
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From: Brian Burns brian@lhmwebdesign.com
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2021 6:18:44 PM
To: Keith Greer k--------r@o------k.com
Subject: Re: Your Website
I appreciate your advice.
On Nov 25, 2021, at 9:28 AM, Keith Greer k--------r@o------k.com wrote:
Hey Brian
Why are you sending spam to promote your company?
It really doesn't reflect very well on your ability to increase my traffic if you have to resort to spamming random email accounts to get business.
Thanks
Keith
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From: Brian Burns brian@lhmwebdesign.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 4:05:20 AM
To: keithgreer k--------r@o------k.com
Subject: Your Website
I'm Brian Burns and my company is Lost Highway Media, located in Arlington, Texas. I design and develop modern, responsive, standards-compliant websites with a focus on excellence. I am contacting you because your website may not be working as hard for your business as you do, and if you are considering a website update, I can help you (a) gain better search engine rankings, (b) increase traffic to your site, and (c) convert more of your visitors into customers. As you know, web technology is changing at a rapid pace, and keeping up to date with the standards that help draw traffic and hold the attention of visitors can be a challenge when you're trying to focus on running and growing a business.
I would welcome the chance to discuss your website. I don't use hard-sell tactics, I will never share or sell your private information, and I am easy to communicate and work with. Please visit my website at www.lhmwebdesign.com - my work speaks for itself (and my satisfied clients have a few words to add). Please let me know if I can answer any questions or provide further information.
Thanks!
Brian Burns
Lost Highway Media
(214) 354-1861
Unsubscribe: http://www.lhmwebdesign.com/removeme.php
Lost Highway Media
602 Giltin Dr.
Arlington, TX 76006

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