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> Subject: HOTEL KEY CARDS
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> Something to think about!!
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> This is pretty good info. Never even thought about key
> cards
> containing anything other than an access code for the
> room!
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> HOTEL KEY CARDS
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> Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?
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> Answer:
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> a. Customer's name
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> B. Customer's partial home address
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> c. Hotel room number
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> d. Check-in date and out dates
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> e. Customer's credit card number and expiration date!
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> 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 he
> 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!
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> 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!
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> 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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>
> PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family
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