more on Hotel Keys

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:12:43 -0500
> From: David Chessler <chessler () usa net>
> Subject: Fwd: Hotel Keys
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> Dave:
>
> Thanks for that article you sent yesterday. However, there appears to be 
> some difference of opinion. Mr. Anderson's company (the article you 
> forwarded yesterday) serves 3 major hotel chains, but apparently the 
> Passadena, CA, police department thinks there is a problem with at least 
> one major chain.
>
>
> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 06:32:22 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
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> From: "Lyle Davis"
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> To: "David Chessler"
> Subject: Hotel Keys
>
> David . . . you posted something about this a couple of weeks ago.  I 
> think I've since deleted it, but then I got this in my email box 
> today.  What's the skinny?
>
> Subject: Hotel Room Cards
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>
> The following is provided for information and further dissemination, as 
> appropriate.
>
> Southern California law enforcement professionals assigned to detect new 
> threats to personal security issues, recently discovered what type of 
> information is embedded in the credit card type hotel room keys used 
> throughout the industry.
>
> Although room keys differ from hotel to hotel, a key obtained from one 
> well-known hotel chain that was being used for a regional Identity Theft 
> Presentation was found to contain the following the information:
>
>      a.. Customers (your) name
>      b.. Customers partial home address
>      c.. Hotel room number
>      d.. Check in date and check out date
>      e.. Customers (your) 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 these cards until an employee issues the 
> card to the next hotel guest. It is usually kept in a drawer at the front 
> desk with YOUR INFORMATION ON IT.
>
> The bottom line is, keep the cards or destroy them! NEVER leave them 
> behind and NEVER turn them in to the front desk when you check out of a 
> room. They will not charge you for the card.
>
> Information courtesy of: Sergeant K. Jorge, Detective Sergeant, Pasadena 
> Police Department
>
> Regards,
>
> Judith
>
> Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff (ODCS) G-2
> Counterintelligence, Foreign Disclosure, and Security
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