{"id":2916,"date":"2022-07-09T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/cms\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2022-11-12T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:23:22","slug":"fighting-back-against-phone-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Back Against Phone Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"<h2>What has been going on<\/h2>\n<p>Saturday, July 9th, 2022.<\/p> <p>Over the past few weeks we have been receiving phone calls from people.\u00a0 They call and say \"I got a call from this number today\" to which, after checking our phone logs, discover that we didn't make.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p> <p>We have also discovered that when we make calls from our business lines the caller display says \"SUSPECTED SPAM\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Steps ICIWorld.com is taking<\/h2>\n<p>We are still investigating, but there isn't much we can do to stop them from using our business numbers.&nbsp; When you call the office, you will be talking to a representative of this company and we will provide you support related to your membership and IDX Licence. Our lines haven't been corrupted, the scammers are just using the numbers for call display.<\/p>\n<h2>If you are a Member<\/h2>\n<p>We DO NOT collect credit card information over the telephone. EVER.&nbsp; All payments are processed online through https:\/\/www.iciworld.com\/join<\/p><p>We maintain secure sites and payments are processed through either PayPal or our payment portal.<\/p>\n<h2>Who you can talk to<\/h2>\n<p>First line of defense is Gary Nusca, CCIM CIPS at <a href=\"tel:4168406227\">416-840-6227<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p><p>You can speak to Lorraine, Tech Support at <a href=\"tel:4168405787\">416-840-5787<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How you can protect yourself<\/h2>\n<p>Tell them that you will call them back!&nbsp; You will get someone from ICIWorld.com answering your call<\/p><p>Don't provide personal information.<\/p><p>Don't agree to make any type of payments.<\/p><p>ICIWorld.com is a Real Estate Information Listing Service.&nbsp; We provide a Real Estate IDX Licence to our Members and provide related services to installing the IDX.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p><br><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iciworld.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}