I Found This Really Snooty, And Could Have Been Dangerous!!  

Oh my I just got a brainstorm...maybe the person posing as a member of this Civic Association was actually a member of that tree company since I did email them too.

As I just mentioned to the poster above you, I suddenly got hit with the idea that it could have been someone from the tree company itself since I did email them. I don't think a legit person representative of that association would be so snooty. Oh, yes, I can reply to the email..do have their address. Is there anyway one can track just where the email address is actually from?

I don't know, pye. Someone more savy than I in the ways of the magic tubes that connect the internet may know.

I was able to track the email..LOL..I simply typed in the email addy into Google..it did come up with the person's name in the email...BUT..the email addy was slightly different by one letter..the email addy from this yoho had a captial "C" while the real person's addy didn't...the plot thickens

Good thing your AVG caught onto the virus..sheesh. I really don't think this person is who he says he is..I was able to track down the email addy..just by typing it in a Google search...the person's name is the same one that is given in the email..but with a different in the email address itself..the real person's address begins with a small "c" while this person's email to me began with a capital C---sounds a bit odd there in itself doesn't it?

I'm beginning to think it might have been some idiot from the tree company itself since I did email them. Oh, I did email the person back..and told him off very distinctly that I did have gardening and pruning savvy, that I wasn't a misinformed troublemaker..also, at the end I mentioned the fact that "you sent me an attachment, why? and added that my system alerted me that there was a virus.
Also this yoho was all wrong...the NYC street trees are NOT sanctioned under the Forestry Dept...there is NO such thing here in NYC, but is under the jurisdiction of the Department of parks and recreation

well I hope you showed them that you aren't a youhoo like them and you caught there game..sending you a virus..what if? no telling..glad you caught it in time...

Okay I emailed back the jerk..he claims he didn't send an attachment..oh? I just got a reply to my email by the way..he was curious whom I've contacted...here's my email back to him..

First of all, there was indeed an attachment with your email.
Second how can I ask any ASPLNDH crew member about their credentials if the crews are no longer working around here? I also found it strange that you gave me a the suggestion that there is a Citizens Pruner Course at Queens Botanic Garden, when there is none. I looked up Trees NY website and yes there is a course, but held at Lost Battalion Hall located in Rego Park.
As for whom I've contacted....Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Department of Parks and Recreation (which is the actual organization from what I understand has jurisdiction with City Trees not Forestry), Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Congressman Crowley, Councilwoman Helen Sears, the Mayor's Office, SaveATree, Environmetal advocates Of NY, Department of Environmental Conservation..also have contacted the news media via..Help Me Howard, Channel 7 On Your Side, Arnold Diaz's Shame on You, John Deutzman, investigative reporter, NY One For You..you get the idea..


I ACTUALLY DID contact all these people...probably now thinks I'm the biggest beech going...LOL

No I'm the biggest Beech..LOL..

I love this email and so glad for copying and telling this idiot like it is..if you forward it back to him let him open his own virus..LOL

Mmmm...should we have a "who is the biggest beech contest"?

I hunted around Queens Botanic Garden website...they do have courses but not this Citizens Pruner thing...then I hunted Trees NY ..they do give courses and the only ones available are in another location, but NOT Queens Botanic. He was very curious whom I had contacted about this...this should rattle his brains a bit cause here's the list of places I did contact
...Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Department of Parks and Recreation (which is the actual organization from what I understand has jurisdiction with City Trees not Forestry), Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Congressman Crowley, Councilwoman Helen Sears, the Mayor's Office, SaveATree, Environmetal advocates Of NY, Department of Environmental Conservation..also have contacted the news media via..Help Me Howard, Channel 7 On Your Side, Arnold Diaz's Shame on You, John Deutzman, investigative reporter, NY One For You

Uh, been busy haven't I??? LOL

I have my suspicions that the person who emailed me wasn't actually who he was saying he was...I started hunting up the real Carsten Glaeser and from what I'm reading about him he would never sanction this tree pruning thing...my suspicion??? It may actually be a person posing as him but from the tree company itself as I did email them. As for making enemies..like I care? He emailed me back and seemed anxious to know whom I contacted about this ...to rattle this jerk off I did list everyone...including the Mayor's office, several other politicians, etc...

You go girl! that is why you are my friend.

A fellow MyLotter (who lives not far from me) and I were very busy last night...he too suggested the business about the IP address...then I did some tracking...seems the IP address/location has several "shared" emails addresses attached to it...seems weird no?

It could be a company using one IP address. Next step is:
go to: http://www.geektools.com/whois.php
Type in that captcha code, & the IP address.
See what it leads to.

Oh - yeah - keep in mind that there is a possibility that the IP address was spoofed as well.

Thanks ever for that link..tried it...according to it the IP number originates from Virginia...uh, duh?? I would have thought the origins would be here in NY

If you can actually find the company that choppily chopped the trees, you might find that maybe the main headquarters or district headquarters, might just be located in an entirely different area.

Usually, unless it is civil service people paid by the city/county/state doing a job, they are on salary with paychecks coming from the municipality. If a job like this needs to be done by a vendor or outside contract, by maybe a landscaping company that the city/state/county needs to hire, a bond is made, & then the job goes out for bid. Then the procurement office of the municipality would probably choose the lowest bidder after receiving quotes from various companies.

Assuming that the IP was not spoofed, the company that got the job may have very well been in Virginia.

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Look at my response that I give under winterose's reply here...#11...I go into a lot of detail there--but basically I think I may have really rattled someone along the line...I did email this bozo back, and point blank asked him why he sent me an attachment, and that when I was about to open it gave me the virus alert...he emailed me back...and among other things he DENIES sending me an attachment at all...that's odd in itself, isn't it?

how in the heck did the attachment get there if he didnt put it there.
From what you found and teh way the email went do you think you are really talking to the same feller?

Want to hear something really strange? I emailed this guy back and did ask him why he sent an attachment...he denies sending me one at all...that's kind of strange..no?

Holy Cow that is so odd.

Makes you wonder.

I was thinking yesterday about my husbands grandfather. He spent many years trying to kill a tree in his yard. He kept topping it. But the tree is still there, thriving.... It kept coming back. YAHOO!!! Tree....

Have an awesome day....