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Gary Reeves, Artist in the Sky, LLC is a Spammer

Mr. Gary Reeves, or as I like to think of him, Gary, is a special case. I normally limit my spammer listings to people who spam me at work. I do this because it's a highly effective way of identifying spam; I'm extremely careful about who I give my work email address to. I don't use it for personal use, so a claim that I signed up for, say, concert information is implausible. But for Gary I'll make an exception.

Gary runs Artist in the Sky, LLC, an aerial photography company. A nice, local business. As noted above, Gary spammed my personal email address. I'd be prone to assume a reasonable accident and would have ignored it, until I looked closer at his spam.

Gary's first spam came from "Gary Reeves [email protected]" and listed the web site as "http://www.aerial-photo-pro.info". Right. Whatever. A bit odd that his email and web addresses are different.

Gary's second piece of spam came from "G. Reeves [email protected]". Hmmm, he changed his email address. Well, that's okay. It happens. But what is his web site? "http://www.high-rez-aerial.info". Changing your web site is a bad, bad idea. Assuming you are a reputable business, it makes you harder to find and loses any good PageRank you've earned. But maybe Gary decided the cost of changing his web site was worth it. Still odd that his email address isn't at the same location, this would have been a good chance to unify them.

Then, his most recent spam. It's from "Gary Reeves [email protected]" and directs me to the web site "http://www.canon5DII-aerials.info". Sorry, Gary. We're beyond reasonable doubt now. You're getting blocked by spam filters because you're spamming. You're jumping domains because you're getting blocked by spam filters. But you keep spamming. At this point you are either willfully spamming, or are extremely stupid. Either way, Gary deserves public humiliation.

Maybe Gary takes great aerial photos. I have no idea. But I know he is a spammer.
Spam History

A log of spam I've received from Gary Reeves, Artist in the Sky, LLC.

From [email protected]  Fri Jun 27 11:38:28 2008                  
From [email protected]  Fri Jun 26 21:04:22 2009                    
From [email protected]  Wed Aug  5 04:37:09 2009

Great feedback.  It's always confusing when you arrive home to see a number on the caller id, and no message on the recorder.  In Gary's case, I thought maybe it was someone calling about work, the caller id shows "Artist in the..." that's all that shows.  Usually spammers are calling from unavailable numbers, or blocked lines all together.  It was very convenient to put this matter to rest in my mind by finding your f/b.

Nothing like this wonderful economy, and in the midst of operating a business, you've often got to sit and wonder, "should I pick up this call?" ... or worse, "did I miss an important call from a client?"  Just to find they are telemarketers.  Isn't there enough PR opportunity with the WWW?  Do these people really need to continue driving people mad?

Holy Cow, he's still at it ?  I get these calls all the time, of course I never answer. I never answer the phone, a crying shame that I have not been able to take a call for at least 5 years unless I know the number. I run a business from my home and cannot take calls. Horrible, thanks to guys like Gary the grub.

Yeah  good old Gary the spamster if you happen to own a local bussiness like i do these guys want to fly over your bussiness and take ariel photos and sell them to you for an enormous price.Get in to modern times Gar thats what google earth is all about.On an up note I hear walmarts hireing in there photo lab the techno may a bit modern for ya but with a 16 yo dept. manager i'm sure you'll be up to date in no time at all. Dont call me I'll call you!

Better yet, of the 3 web sites listed above, the first two are dead or directed to a domain-for-sale and the last goes to a Chinese shoe website :P