Safty Tip Needs reading

GPS

A couple of weeks ago a
friend told me that someone she
knew

had their car broken
into while they were at a football game. Their
car was parked
on the green which was adjacent to the football
stadium and specially allotted to
football fans. Things stolen from the car
included a garage door remote
control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently
mounted on the
dashboard.

When the victims got
home, they found that their house had been ransacked
and just about everything worth anything had
been stolen. The thieves had used the
GPS to guide them to the house. They then used
the garage remote control to open the garage
door and gain entry to the house. The
thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they
knew what time the game was scheduled to finish
and so they knew how much time they
had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had
brought a truck to empty the house of its
contents.
Something
to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your
home address
in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas
station) so you can
still find your way home if you need to, but no
one else would know where
you live if your GPS were
stolen.

MOBILE
PHONES
I never thought of
this.......
This lady has now
changed her habit of how she lists her names on her
mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her
handbag, which contained her cell
phone, credit card, wallet... Etc...was
stolen. 20 minutes later when
she called her hubby, from a pay
phone telling him what had
happened, hubby says
'I received your
text asking about our Pin number and
I've replied a little while
ago.' When they rushed down to
the bank, the bank staff told them all the money
was already withdrawn. The
thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text
'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the
pin number. Within 20
minutes he had withdrawn all the money from
their bank account.




Moral
of the
lesson:




Do not
disclose the relationship between you and the
people in your contact list. Avoid using names like
Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom,
etc....And very importantly,
when sensitive info is being asked through
texts, CONFIRM by calling
back.




Also, when you're being
text by friends or family to meet
them some where,
be sure to call back to confirm that the message
came from them. If you don't reach
them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and
friends' who text
you.

*PLEASE
PASS THIS
ON
* I never thought about
the above!

As of now, I no longer
have 'home'
listed on my cell phone..