[/align][align=center] IS THIS INFO ON THE CARD OR JUST GIVE ACCESS TO THE HOTEL COMPUTOR?[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]URBAN MYTH?
[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=left]Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card? Answer:
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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
therefore 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 elec tronically "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 in to
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, esp ecially through the electronic
information strip!

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All good advice and should be well known by the public. I've unfortunately had to spend a large portion of my life in Hotel rooms but haven't experianced the problem because my card expenses were always on my Companies bill. However when the card keys first started being universally used we all did get a warning about this to watch for on personal travel.
I still like the the1/2 pound brass keys used in 100 year old hotels in Europe. If you can still carry it back to the hotel you haven't drunk "too much wine."

 

I, too, spent quite a bit of time living in hotel rooms for work, also paying with company info, but I always keep the credit card style keys. Just in case.

 

you 2 guys weren't pimps were you?

 

i was an auditor.

 

not only is that NOT a myth but it gets better.

years back when i was living in the AA 757's, coast to coast,
and at the Hilton's in between (no, i never met the heiress) flights,
there was a big fire in Vegas. some people died because they exited
the rooms and found matters worse in the hallway, BUT
since they had left the room key behind, couldnt go back.

after that, we had training to survive hotel fires and a few things
were brought up as absolutally a must to survive:
- never, NEVER , NEVER leave your room w/o the key,
if you may find matters worse, you may need to re-enter your room,
- when you arrive at a hotel, count the doors to the fire escape,
very hard to find in the confussion and smoke,
- have a mini flashlight to find your way around, dahhh,
- if you leave your room in a fire, take a wet towel with you
to be used as a breathing filter - not great, but better than nothing.

oh .. also, in the 757's / 767's, sit by the wing (and exit door) in the airplane
in case zinizn decided to ditch the plane. it is also the seat with the large stretch
your legs space.

LIVE LONG AND Prosper ...






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No offense, the pimp thing was a bad attempt at humor,in any case I do some business with a company in S Florida called audit 1. He does some hotels in broward and dade, including a big one in coconut grove.

 

GARY

I certainly do not want to offend anyone either but I think you insulted the pimp!
With all due respect to all you moderator/administrator gods I believe I saw this poll on respected professions.

1 Clergyman
8. Doctor
12. Pilot
73 Check cashing services
82.Liquor salesman
89. Real Estate Broker
93. Used car salesman
99. Pimp
100 Auditor.

 

Let's check Webster's Unabridged:

Auditor : Financial personnel who comes in after the battle is done and Bayonet's the survivors.

This after many years of working in GM Financial and dealing with internal auditors, Corporate auditors and then Independent auditors. All asking the same set of questions with that look that says "you are a crook and I'm going to catch you!".

 

having been a MTS under consultation to DOD/USAF-Missile Office ,
i did my share of "put their feet to the coals and see what falls out" ..
it never failed, something always fell out. funny this comes up, most
of what i did was in zinzin's back yard having flown into Logan more
times thani can or want to remember.

none cuz they were crooks but cuz often they (contrators) didnt buy
into the letter of the contract themselves - a contract that often was
put in place by suits that knew little about the workings of the shops.
if there was a underlined issue,i could spot an attitude in 30 seconds
and that's where and when the digging began.

i re-negotiated plenty to the advantage of BOTH sides, always with
a win-win attitude - i met a lot of good people on both sides.
oh .. pimp (among other terms) was something that was often trown
at me by angry contractor employees. i never let it get to me.

i always said that my goal was to save DOD my annual salary
on each trip i made. since i got paid two cents, that was easy.

BTW, have you met?
pimp_cadi_danny





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