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This is very troubling what lengths people will go to to steal what doesnâ?Tt belong to them ! 100% of the time I lock my car on the door lock inside when I exit the car. Little did I know that is the best way to lock your car. Read on
Beware folks. This is news you can use.
THIS HAS BEEN CHECKED ON SNOPES
My oldest son came over yesterday- he had to go toCanada for work last week. One of the other engineer's traveling to Canada with him, but in his own car had something happen...that I need to share.
While traveling he stopped at the roadside park, similar to what we have here with bathrooms, vending machines etc. He came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later and found someone had gotten into his car, and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, gps navigator briefcase.....you name it.
They called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broke into- the police told him that there is a divice that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device..They set a distance away and watch for their next victim. Since they know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom and have a few minutes to steal and run. The police office said...to be sure to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car, that way if there is someone setting in a parking lot watching for their next victim it will not be you.
When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting...it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain- it sends the code thru the airwaves where it can be stolen.
I just wanted to let you know about this...it is something totally new to us...and this is real...it just happened this past Thursday June 19th to his co-worker...
So be aware of this and please pass this note on...look how many times we all lock our doors with our keys...just to be sure we remembered to lock them....and bingo the guys have our code...and whatever was in the car...can be gone.
Keep safe everyone!
Friday, July 25, 2008
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Hi,
This may have been checked on Snopes but if YOU had done what I just did and made a check yourself, you'd have found that this information is FALSE:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp
In short, the article says that the oldest of these devices could have had this happen, but anything more modern than those uses a rolling code that changes every time you use your key fob, making picking off codes useless on anything but the oldest of systems.
It's always a good idea to check something like this on Snopes yourself, even if the piece says "THIS HAS BEEN CHECKED ON SNOPES" because it's not always true.
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