Re: Off topic: Motel Cards Intel

[Anne Oelke <anne@OELKE.COM>]

You were right to be a bit suspicious (wow, I found something that Doug
Johnson didn't --I'm amazed!!!).  This link has more information:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hotel_keycards.htm   and also
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hotel_keycards2.htm
There was a basis of an actual (supposedly) incident, but this is no longer
true according to these sites.


At 08:08 AM 10/31/2003, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Privacy issue I had not thought of before. Something to think about for
>those of us who travel. (Or just check into motels often, I guess.) This
>has a bit of a taint of urban myth to it, but could not find any
>verification one way or the other.
>
>Doug
>************
>Doug Johnson
>Director of Media and Technology
>I.S.D. 77, Mankato Public Schools
>--------
>
>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.

Anne C. Oelke  Library Media Specialist
Cambria-Friesland School District
Cambria, WI. US  53923
mailto:anne@oelke.com

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