[TheList] FW: Fw: Car Locking - Just in case

Sun Nov 25 05:57:29 AEDT 2012

Hi John,

If your car alarm is reasonably modern I'd say it won't work.

Modern alarms receive rolling codes from the remotes. The Alarm system 
knows the last rolling code received from each remote programmed in and 
a repeat of that code will not activate the alarm. That's why you need 
to change the batteries very quickly (before the capacitor in parallel 
with the battery goes flat) on some brands of remotes or they'll stop 
working (because it then doesn't know the last code it sent).

It's possible that a particular brand of alarms software had been 
compromised, but I've never heard of it happening.

I would say this may have applied some time ago, but not with most name 
brand alarms produced in about the last 8 years.

Couldn't find it on Snopes at all,

Suggest reading this reference:

<http://skepticdetective.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/thirty-years-ago-maybe/>

Regards,

Neill.

On 25/11/2012 1:51 a.m., John Barnhill wrote:
>
> “Anyone aware of this happening here in NZ?”
>
>
>                 *Car Locking – Just in case *
>
>                 *_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 would
>                 hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked
>                 around and there were two guys sitting in a car next
>                 to the store. They were obviously watching me
>                 intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow
>                 involved in this very weird situation. I quickly
>                 chucked the errand I was on, jumped in 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 cars.
>
>                 Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar
>                 happening....While traveling, my friend's son stopped
>                 at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came
>                 out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone
>                 had gotten into his car and stolen his mobile phone,
>                 laptop computer, sat nav, briefcase.......you name it.
>                 He called the police and since there were no signs of
>                 his car being broken into, the police told him he had
>                 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 of the store,
>                 restaurant, or bathroom and that they now have a few
>                 minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to
>                 *manually lock your car with the key -- that way if
>                 there is someone sitting in a parking lot 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 instantly stolen.*
>
>                 *This is very real.*
>
>
>
>                 Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass
>                 this note 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
>                 what ever was in our car.
>
>                 */_Snopes Approved --.Please share with everyone you
>                 know_/*
>
>
>
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