07-06-2013, 06:54 PM
Hi,
An old school chum has passed on the following information to me and it's worth sharing.
How to Lock Your Car and Why!
"I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car
door unlock''.
I went back and locked my car again three times.
Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I could
hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there
were two men sitting in a car next to the Store.
They were obviously watching me intently, and there
seemed no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird
situation.
I quickly abandoned my errand, jumped into my car and
sped away.
I went straight to the police station, told them what
had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful,
scheme being used to gain entry into parked cars.
Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar
experience....While travelling, he stopped at a motorway service area
to use the toilet.
When he came out to his car less than 5 minutes later,
someone had managed to get into his car and had stolen his mobile
phone, laptop computer, sat-nav, briefcase and other belongings.
He called the police and since there were no signs of
his car having been broken into, the police told him he had probaly
been a victim of the latest robbery tactic – there is a device that
robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your
doors on your car using your remote locking device.
They sit a distance away and watch for their next
victim. They know you are going inside the Store, restaurant, or
whatever and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run.
* The police officer said always to lock your car
manually with the key when parking in a public area. That way if there
is someone sitting in a car nearby watching for their next victim, it
will not be you.
When you lock up with the key upon exiting, it does
not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the remote
button, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be easily
intercepted by the device.
This is very real. Be aware of what you just read and
please pass this information on.
Look how many times we all lock our doors with our
remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo,
someone has our code...and potentially whatever is in our car."
Please share with everyone you know in the hope that
we can frustrate these thieves.
Additionally another friend was telling me that he was obtaining insurance quotes for a car he had just bought and was alarmed to discover that if he left the car outside all the time rather than in a securely locked garage he would have to pay £30 less. The reason he was given was that a car in a locked garage enables a thief to spend considerably more time stealing from the car whilst unobserved? This is about as stupid as the insurance company a while ago that tried to charge extra for fitting winter tyres in winter classing the winter tyres as a modification.
Kind regards, Col.
An old school chum has passed on the following information to me and it's worth sharing.
How to Lock Your Car and Why!
"I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car
door unlock''.
I went back and locked my car again three times.
Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I could
hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there
were two men sitting in a car next to the Store.
They were obviously watching me intently, and there
seemed no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird
situation.
I quickly abandoned my errand, jumped into my car and
sped away.
I went straight to the police station, told them what
had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful,
scheme being used to gain entry into parked cars.
Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar
experience....While travelling, he stopped at a motorway service area
to use the toilet.
When he came out to his car less than 5 minutes later,
someone had managed to get into his car and had stolen his mobile
phone, laptop computer, sat-nav, briefcase and other belongings.
He called the police and since there were no signs of
his car having been broken into, the police told him he had probaly
been a victim of the latest robbery tactic – there is a device that
robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your
doors on your car using your remote locking device.
They sit a distance away and watch for their next
victim. They know you are going inside the Store, restaurant, or
whatever and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run.
* The police officer said always to lock your car
manually with the key when parking in a public area. That way if there
is someone sitting in a car nearby watching for their next victim, it
will not be you.
When you lock up with the key upon exiting, it does
not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the remote
button, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be easily
intercepted by the device.
This is very real. Be aware of what you just read and
please pass this information on.
Look how many times we all lock our doors with our
remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo,
someone has our code...and potentially whatever is in our car."
Please share with everyone you know in the hope that
we can frustrate these thieves.
Additionally another friend was telling me that he was obtaining insurance quotes for a car he had just bought and was alarmed to discover that if he left the car outside all the time rather than in a securely locked garage he would have to pay £30 less. The reason he was given was that a car in a locked garage enables a thief to spend considerably more time stealing from the car whilst unobserved? This is about as stupid as the insurance company a while ago that tried to charge extra for fitting winter tyres in winter classing the winter tyres as a modification.
Kind regards, Col.
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