[NSRCA-discussion] Fw: Hotel Keys- interesting
Jon Lowe
jonlowe at aol.com
Fri Apr 3 06:49:23 AKDT 2009
Sigh...Yet ANOTHER urban legend, at least 6 years old.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
Jon Lowe
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From: billglaze <billglaze at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 8:44 am
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Fw: Hotel Keys- interesting
I'm forwarding this because we stay in motels/hotels so often
at contests. Has anybody heard of this, or is it another one of these
"The
sky is falling" things so prevalent on the internet?
Bill Glaze
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From:
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Subject:
FW: Hotel Keys- interesting
Date:
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:51:52 -0500
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Subject: re: Hotel Keys - interesting
I didn’t know this – but I’ll never return one of those card keys to
the front desk again.
Good information for those that travel if you don't already
know.
Ever wonder what is on your magnetic
key card?
Answer:
a. Customer's name
b. Customer's partial home address
c. Hotel room number
A
0 d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer's credit card number and
expiration date!
When you turn them in to the front desk your personal
information
is there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the
hotel
scanner.
An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a
scanning
device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping
at
your expense.
Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these
cards
until an employee
re-issues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new
guest's
information is electronically 'overwritten' on the card and the
previous
guest's information is erased in the overwriting process.
But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it
usually
is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!
The bottom line is:
=C
2 Keep the cards, take them home with you, or destroy them.
NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket,
and
NEVER
turn them in to the front desk when you check out of a room. They
will
not
charge you for the card (it's illegal) and you'll be sure you are
not
leaving a
lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily
lifted
off
with any simple scanning device card reader.
For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you
still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport
trash
basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially
through
the
electronic information strip!
You can also use a small magnet and pass it across the magnetic
strip several times. Then try it in the door, if it does not work it
erases
everything on the card.
Information courtesy of: Pasadena Police Department
PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family.
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Ever wonder what is on your magnetic
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b. Customer's partial home address
c. Hotel room number
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An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a
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