Hotel keycards. Who knew? - GoFuckYourself.com

Fenris Wolf · 08-31-2010, 01:15 AM

A friend of mine sent me this.

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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: Alberta Metropolitan Police Service.

PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family.

Who would of thought all that info would be on a hotel key card. Didn't a bunch of people who went to the Phoenix Forum get their cc banged this year?

garce · 08-31-2010, 01:22 AM

Snopes is your friend: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp

TidalWave · 08-31-2010, 01:25 AM

Only a douche would believe that

bbobby86 · 08-31-2010, 02:16 AM

nice nice... thanks...

ottopottomouse · 08-31-2010, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fenris Wolf

A friend of mine sent me this.

Quote:

PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family.

How fucking obvious does it need to be?

greg80 · 08-31-2010, 04:09 AM

what a bunch of fucking bullshit, only a retard would believe that

halfpint · 08-31-2010, 04:22 AM

give me a good old old fashioned lock and key and im happy with that .. anything that has or can store info electrontically is never safe and never will be

maxxtro · 08-31-2010, 05:02 AM

bloggerz · 08-31-2010, 05:14 AM

they reissue keys? lol i always thought they always made new ones for new guests

react · 08-31-2010, 05:16 AM

Hi, I heard they took gullible out of the dictionary.. who knew?

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MichaelP · 08-31-2010, 07:24 AM

yeah Patty got this email yesterday as well... NO TRUE!

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