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This seems plausible.



This has been around before but in case you haven't seen it, please read.



IMPORTANT

what is on your hotel door magnetic key card? Answer:

a. Customer's name
b. Customer's partial home address
c. Hotel room number
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:
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!

Information courtesy of: Pasadena Police Department


PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family.



Who would have ever thought of such a thing?
You wonder how your identnity is stolen, here's a possible reason.