The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) is advising REALTORS® to carefully review email messages from IDFPR before responding because of a possible scam.

The suspicious emails come from a non-existent official at IDFPR, “Katherine Shimonov, Chief Administrative Officer,” and direct recipients to “@illinois.gov.fpfa.ab.ca.” Since the official and the website are not affiliated with IDFPR, REALTORS® should not respond to these messages.

If you have any questions, please contact IDFPR Public Information Officer Chris Slaby at [email protected].