I have been sent this email by my Chief Executive for comment. Does anyone know if this practice happens here in UK ?
Kathy Perkins
Medical Records Manager
The London Clinic
20 Devonshire Place
London W1G 6BW
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Telephone: 0207 935 4444 x 3214
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
through-out the industry.
Although room keys differ from hotel to hotel, a key obtained from the
"Double Tree" 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
Theresa Sexton
Intelligence Analyst
303/239-4243
303/239-5788 fax
Det. Wes Daily Ret.
President
East Coast Gang Investigator's Association, Inc.
Tel.: 631 523-6555
Fax: 631 447-1362
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shared here is for the benefit of others."
Kathy Perkins
Medical Records Manager
extension 3214
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