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Sign into your accountDon’t Let Your Reputation—or Your Wallet—Fall Prey to Scam Complaint Site
January 15 2013
Stacey Moncrieff of the Speaking of Real Estate blog says:
A web site of suspicious origin is misusing the REALTOR® trademark in what seems to be an attempt to get money from real estate practitioners.
The site, Realtor-complaints.com, supposedly publishes consumer complaints about real estate agents. However, an investigation by the New Jersey Association of REALTORS® showed a string of complaints against its members, all using similar phrasing. "This leads to suspicion that these are not all public-submitted complaints," says Lauren Castellano, director of communications for the New Jersey Association of REALTORS®.
Not only that, when agents who have been the subject of a complaint attempt to make contact, the site offers them the "opportunity" to pay to have the complaint and their name removed from the site, says Michael Thiel, an attorney for the National Association of REALTORS®. NAR legal staff checked the WHOIS record for the site and discovered it's hosted on servers located in the Seychelles. "It's recorded as having been initially registered on Jan. 1, 2013," Thiel says, "which makes the site's claim of having been around since 2002 very suspect."