Hi folks,
I am always humbled by the expertise of the LM_Net members. What an
AMAZING GROUP OF PEOPLE!
Thanks, Anne, for checking this more thoroughly than I did.
Doug
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
>Box 8713, Mankato MN 56002-8713
>Voice: 507-387-7698, Fax: 507-387-2496
>E-mail: dougj@doug-johnson.com
>Web: www.doug-johnson.com
>
>"The fates guide those who go willingly; those who do not, they drag."
>Seneca
>
>
>
>
>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
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-
>All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law.
>To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In
>the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL
>3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation.
>LM_NET Help & Information: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/
>Archive: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml
>LM_NET Select/EL-Announce: http://www.cuenet.com/archive/el-announce/
>LM_NET Supporters: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ven.html
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-
Anne C. Oelke Library Media Specialist
Cambria-Friesland School District
Cambria, WI. US 53923
mailto:anne@oelke.com
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-
All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law.
To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu
In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL
3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation.
LM_NET Help & Information: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/
Archive: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml
LM_NET Select/EL-Announce: http://www.cuenet.com/archive/el-announce/
LM_NET Supporters: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ven.html
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-
LM_NET
Mailing List Home