The embarrassment dates back to last Friday, when the Office of Fair Trading emailed over four hundred money laundering reporting officers (responsible for overseeing best practise at estate agencies and brokers) asking them to take part in a consultation. Unfortunately, OFT left everybody's email address in visible in the "To" field, and some recipients have already complained of receiving unsolicited mail, as well as expressed concern about being "outed". OFT have apologised, and asked everybody to delete the offending email. More here.

Technorati Tags: estate agents, real estate agents