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

Sun Nov 25 08:03:25 AEDT 2012

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp

Mark.
Auckland.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: TheList [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz]On Behalf Of John
Barnhill
  Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2012 01:51
  To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
  Subject: [TheList] FW: Fw: Car Locking - Just in case

  "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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