Spot the CAN SPAM violations

I received this piece of unsolicited email today, to an address harvested off a website. How many CAN SPAM violations can you count?

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From: "Ashley Anderson"
To: <MUNGE>
Subject: Do You Want Access to NEW Customers?
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 13:49:42 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,
Does you company need access to fresh databases that can be used
for E-mail Marketing, Direct Mail & Telemarketing?
We have access to 200 Million Consumers & 45 Million
Businesses.=09
Some of our most popular lists are:
> U.S. Realtors - 1,281,916 Full Records=09
> U.S. Lawyers - 269,787 Full Records=09
> U.S. Financial Planners - 265,425 Full Records=09
> U.S. Businesses - 4.8 Million Full Records=09
> U.S. Manufacturers - 1,057,119 Full Records=09
> U.S. Homeowners - 1,326,620 Full Records=09
> U.S. Physicians - 741,809 Full Records=09
> Worldwide Investors - 8,562,140 Emails Only=09
*Much More Available Upon Request=2E
Call us to get a FREE quote!
Thank You,
Ashley Anderson
Data Specialist
Business Networking Services
1 (800) 841-5070

I’m counting at 4 violations, plus aggravated damages because the address was harvested.
How many violations can you find?
Would you trust this company to sell you actual opt-in addresses?

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