Another email hoax in circulation since 2003.
The content of the mail is reported to be False.
Ref: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
S.V.SAI BABA
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From: partha_padma devarajan <partha_pa...@hotmail.com>
To: thatha patty <thatha_patty@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, 27 March, 2010 9:29:53 PM
Subject: FW: Y U Need 2 B Wary Of Hotel Magnetic Key Cards.....
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>
>
>Always take a small magnet on your holiday, they come in handy at the end of
>it.
>Thought you all needed to know this
>
>This is pretty good info. Never even thought about key cards containing
>anything other than an access code for the room!
>
>HOTEL KEY CARDS
>
>Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?
>
>Answer:
>a. Customer's name
>B. Customer's partial home address
>c. Hotel room number
>d. Check-in date and out dates
>e. Customer's 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 the information on these cards until an
>employee reissues the card to the next hotel guest. At that time, the new
>guest's information is electronically 'overwritten' on the card and the
>previous guest's information is erased in the overwriting process.
>
>But until the card is rewritten for the next guest, it usually is kept in a
>drawer at 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 turn them into 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!
>
>If you have a small magnet, pass it across the magnetic strip several times..
>Then try it in the door, it will not work. It erases everything on the card.
>
>
>
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