Fwd: Warning Concerning Hotel Key Cards

[Guest guest]

Good Afternoon All,

Just in case you are not aware of this information I am passing it on

FYI and distribution as you see fit.

Have a great one. - Stan

I called the Detective Unit Pasadena Police Department and confirmed

the

information. Something to consider when you lose a card. - Don

Subject: FW: Warning concerning Hotel Key Cards

The following is provided for information and further dissemination, as

appropriate.

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 one

well-known 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.. 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. , Detective Sergeant, Pasadena

Police Department