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To all the frequent travelers.
Subject: Hotel keycards
I did not realize that hotel room keycards contained so much information.
Sounds like a good advice. I am sure I won't leave my key card anymore.
You know how when you check out of a hotel that uses thecredit-card-type
room key, the clerk often will ask you to return your key(s)...or to drop in
a box or slot at the Reception counter?
It's good for the hotel because they save money by re-using those cards.
But, it is not good for you, as revealed below by the California
Bureau of Investigation:
"Southern California law enforcement professionals assigned to detect
new threats to personal security issues, recently discovered what type of information is embedded in the credit card type hotel room keys
used throughout the industry. Although room keys differ from hotel to
hotel, a key obtained from a wellknown
hotel chain that was being used for a regional Identity Theft Presentation was found to contain the following
the information:
a..Customers (your) name
b..Customers partial home address
c..Hotel room number
d..Check in date and check out date
e..Customer's (your) credit card number and expiry date!
When you return them at the front desk your personal information
remain there for any employee to access by simply scanning the card in the
hotel scanner.
An employee can take a handfull 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 the previous guest's information.
But until the card is reused for the next guest, it usually is kept
in a drawer 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 return them in at 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
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