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VENDOR WARNING - PLEASE READ IF YOU'VE USED HOUSE-HUNTING.COM

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Real Estate Agent with Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 228209

If you've ever used www.House-Hunting.com to market your listings, please read...

Cancel that credit cardImagine the horror when I did an innocent Google search of one of our company email addresses and found my credit card information on PAGE 1 of GOOGLE from this company.  Below is a screenshot of a sample of page after page of the information--I covered the CREDIT CARD INFORMATION that IS STILL there for the world to see.  I downloaded the page to send them and found that they are sharing with the world 54 pages of their clients' credit card information and personal information.

About two months ago, our credit card company notified us of suspicious activity on our account.  We had no idea how anyone had gotten our card information but, we cancelled the card and went through the process of notifying our vendors to change our credit card information on file with them.  

I have YET to hear back from House-Hunting.com following my demand to correct this problem.  So, I strongly encourage you to...

 
Contact House-Hunting.com at webmaster@house-hunting.com IMMEDIATELY!  As well, if you haven't already, contact your bank to cancel this card and have them issue you another one right away!
 
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Comments(76)

Tammie White, Broker
Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN
Franklin TN Homes for Sale

Debe, I knew it was just a matter of time before something like this would happen. Unfortunately, too many companies have our sensitive information and not all of them know how to safeguard it.

Aug 26, 2012 02:22 PM
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Thanks for the warning Debe, I hope that all of the people on the list get the warning before thieves get the numbers.

I will share this one too.

Aug 26, 2012 04:20 PM
Christine Donovan
Donovan Blatt Realty - Costa Mesa, CA
Broker/Attorney 714-319-9751 DRE01267479 - Costa M

Debe - Wow!  I don't even want to think about how that could have happened.

Aug 26, 2012 04:54 PM
Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL
Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

What a freakin' surprise...

And we have to be careful with credit cards. Recently I made a stupid call to a fake company and gave them my credit card information, and then realized that I made a mistake, so I called the credit card company and cancelled the card.

They sent me another one, but meanwhile the closed account hit me and I lost about 50 points on my credit score, and it took, I believe, couple months to fix the problem

Aug 26, 2012 04:59 PM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

Debbie - This is so incredibly sad and irresponsible of this company.  I'm so glad you are able to prevent this from happening to others.

Aug 26, 2012 07:29 PM
Phil Leng
Retired - Kirkland, WA
Phil Leng - Retired

Hi Debe,

I see a lawsuit happening.

If not from you, someone else. That is irresponsible and dangerous of them...

Phil

Aug 26, 2012 08:41 PM
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

This is scary . I have not used the company but am scared to do a search  and find other companies that may have done the same.

Aug 26, 2012 08:54 PM
Kathy Sheehan
Bay Equity, LLC 770-634-4021 - Atlanta, GA
Senior Loan Officer

Debe, this is just down right irresponsible!  With all of the issues with identity theft, what were they thinking??????

Aug 26, 2012 10:10 PM
Wayne Bennett
One Home Team Realty/Charlotte,NC 704-293-3931 - Charlotte, NC
Real Estate...As It Should Be

Debe...very scary and alarming, thank you so much for sharing your experience and advise.  We've come so far in this age of technology, a little over the edge at times.

Aug 26, 2012 10:26 PM
Shannon Milligan, Richmond VA Real Estate Agent/Associate Broker
RVA Home Team - Richmond, VA
RVA Home Team - Winning with Integrity.

That is ridiculous! Thankfully I have not used them, but I am so sorry that it happened to you and many others. How unethical.

Aug 27, 2012 01:28 AM
Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA
Metro Boston Homes For Sale

Well, Debe, I stopped by to wish you a very happy Birthday - and it seems all visits to your posts is beneficial to me in one way or the other - for example this one.

Looking forward to August 30th Rain Camp....

Aug 27, 2012 02:46 AM
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!
Thanks, Praful! I'm still in amazement that the company has not contacted me....especially since their company is all the buzz in the real estate world right now.
Aug 27, 2012 02:53 AM
Sandy Acevedo
951-290-8588 - Chino Hills, CA
RE/MAX Masters, Inland Empire Homes for Sale

This is amazing, and even more so that they are not acting quickly on their customers' behalf! Totally shameful!

Aug 27, 2012 04:18 AM
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Debe,  Thank goodness I do not use third party vendors such as House Hunting dot com to market my listings.  IDIOTS!!!

Aug 27, 2012 06:12 AM
Lora "Leah" Stern 914-772-4528
Coldwell Banker, 170 N Main Street, New City NY 10956 - New City, NY
Real Estate Salesperson

Debe - so glad you caught this and thank for sharing.  How irresponsible of them.

Aug 27, 2012 12:40 PM
Karen Fiddler, Broker/Owner
Karen Parsons-Fiddler, Broker 949-510-2395 - Mission Viejo, CA
Orange County & Lake Arrowhead, CA (949)510-2395

You are kidding? This is horrible...and I hope you are keeping track of the correspondence with them, if you have damages in the future due to this. wow

Aug 28, 2012 01:43 AM
Chuck Ward Local Video Marketing
Florida Mobile Fusion Mobile, Marketing, Local SEO - Tampa, FL
SMS Marketing, Google Plus Local Pages

My two cents worth is on this subject might be a little off track but follow me for a minute

For those who may not search their own email address in Google ( I honestly never thought about doing that) but you should also set up a google alert so that anytime something about anything search term appears (in this case an email address) on the web, you are notified pretty quickly

(Again, just an opinion)

I Might reblog this with that idea !

 

Chuck in Tampa

Aug 28, 2012 02:41 AM
Melissa Zavala
Broadpoint Properties - Escondido, CA
Broker, Escondido Real Estate, San Diego County

Debe: Do you have an update on this? Just curious as to whether it was resolved yet.

Aug 29, 2012 10:46 AM
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

Still no response whatsoever, Melissa!  Absolutely SHOCKING to me.  I'm sure that the Attorney General is soon to be all over this.

Sep 08, 2012 12:58 AM
Ginger Harper
Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team - Southport, NC
Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!

I am so glad that you posted this and I am going to reblog it for folks that read my site also. This is a very valuble information that needs to be shared with other. Thanks for the excellent post.

Oct 09, 2012 11:13 PM