The Banana Tree Tropical Forum

You may have noticed that we have blocked the display of email addresses if you click on
another forum member's profile. We have done this to protect you from getting any future
spam mail. The laws of this country, and rules of this forum Strictly forbid e-mail or forum soliciting.

On April, 5 at around 9:35 PM we had an incidence of SPAM being received by many of
our forum members.

We would like your help in reporting this spam to the originating party's service providers so that this spammer
will not be able to send any more spam. Below are instruction on who to send what to report this spammer.

We've been having trouble lately with a particular company SPAMing the members of this
forum, with fraudulent e-mails claiming they have plants all for $5 each, when in reality
only small selection
of their plants listed are actually that price. Also they tried to make the message
appear as though it was not from them directly, so they used a generic looking ISP email account to cover up
the fact they where sending the message.

I actually phoned the 800 I found on the spammer's site, who was responsible for sending the spam messages to everyone,

Here is how the conversation went,

Spammer: "Hello Candle supply place, how may I help you, or also "Plants Co."

Me, "Are you sending e-mail message from the address,gardner@pgrb.com ?

Spammer: Um mm... Long pause... "Oh that was my Cousin
yeah I can't really control her, she's uhhh... she's uhhh a little, I have not control over her"

Me: "If I get one more piece of junk mail from you I will be filing suit against your company, do you hear me?"

Spammer: "What are talking about, we didn't do anything illegal"

Me:, "Yes you did, you can't go someone's web site, harvest email addresses from them and send them
spam advertising a fraud!"

Spammer" Well you should go re-fresh your knowledge of the FTC e-mail rules", HANGS UP!

ME: Thinking to myself, hmmm actually I have a copy of the 2003 CAN-SPAM laws in a folder on my desktop, she
most have read a different version on a "how to spam" people site or book ? ha-ha

We would like your help in reporting this spam to the originating party's service providers so that
this spammer will not be able to send any more spam.

Please forward your message as an attachment or copy and paste all of the original headers to the following addresses,

just click the link below.

support@empiredatatech.com?bcc=abuse@pgtv.net,abuse@zoneedit.com,btreeforum@tonal.org,abuse@broadwing.com,spam@uce.gov,abuse@godaddy.com&subject=Reporting SPAM

or cut and paste these addresses to your message:

abuse@godaddy.com
spam@uce.gov
abuse@broadwing.com
abuse@zoneedit.com
abuse@pgtv.net
support@empiredatatech.com
btreeforum@tonal.org

This is how the message appeared

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FROM: gardner@(Domain blocked out).com

"Hello. I just wanted to email you and let you know of a great site to

buy tropical plants such as Banana Trees, Elephant Ears and Carnivorous Plants. The

website is (deleted to hide identity)
They have great prices (single plants are $4.95)! If you are interested I'm sure you will be happy with (deleted to hide identity) . There is a sale too: free shipping!"

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Depending on your e-mail account you can get your e-mail header information
from several different places.

In Microsoft Outlook Express, or Outlook:

1) Right Click on the message in your in box where you see all the messages listed.
2) A pop-up menu will appear, on the bottom click "Properties".
3) Now a tabbed window appears, click on the "Details" Tab at the top.
4) In the Details Tab area, click on the button on the bottom right that says,"Message Source".
5) Now right click and select all of message

If you are using Yahoo web mail account.

1) Open and view the message as you normally would.
2) Now in the upper right corner click on the link that says " Full Headers ".
3) Copy and Paste all the message details to our spam form's message body and click "send". Done!

Other E-mail like Hotmail AOL etc.

I don't have a hotmail account etc. so I can't say for sure where you find the header info, but
you should be able to look at the yahoo example above and find an equivalent button
or link to show all header info. Copy and paste whatever info you find into our form and
send it.

Thank you,
Forum Admin
Banana Tree Inc.

'All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.' - - - T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)