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> 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
> through-out the industry.
>
> Although room keys differ from hotel to hotel, a key obtained from the
> "Double Tree" 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.. Customers (your) 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 these cards until an employee issues
> the
> card to the next hotel guest. It is usually kept in a drawer at the
> front
> desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT!!!!
>
> The bottom line is, keep the cards or destroy them! NEVER leave them
behind
> and NEVER turn them in to the front desk when you check out of a room.
They
> will not charge you for the card.
>
> Information courtesy of: Sergeant K. Jorge,
> Detective Sergeant,
> Pasadena Police Department
>
> Theresa Sexton
> Intelligence Analyst
> 303/239-4243

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