Thursday 20 September 2012

[www.keralites.net] Staying at a Hotel

 

 
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 addresses 
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.

www.keralites.net

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