How true is this -
> 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.> > Information courtesy of: Metropolitan Police Service.*> -- *J. Alfred Prufrock* *"I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle, Infinitely suffering thing"*
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