I recently received one of those "Hey! Watch out! Be careful!" emails that didn't report where it came from, who wrote it, nor how accurate/truthful it was. But since my mind does not work in these devious fashions, my next thought was "Very Clever"! It appears that certain not-your-run-of-the-mill thieves have devised new methods of stealing!
The jist of the email is as follows:
Some avid football fans were at a game and had parked their car in the fan parking area. Their car was broken into and the GPS, garage door opener and some money were stolen.
Upon arriving home, they discovered that the house had been ransacked and all valuables were gone! Apparently, the thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the home, used the garage door opener for easy entry and ,since this heist had been pre-planned, just backed the truck up, loaded up and drove off before the football game was over!
Then the email discussed our ever present cell phone! A woman had had her purse stolen, which contained her cell phone, credit cards,wallet, bank ID, etc. (Many of us can relate to this tale!) Upon discovering that the purse was gone (maybe from an open house?), she called her husband to tell him her tale of woe. He replied that he HAD received her TEXT MESSAGE requesting their bank PIN number and had already sent it to her! (He had been identified as "hubby" in her cell phone!) They rushed to the bank but,alas, the thieves had already been there and the cash was gone!
These thieves put a lot of thought into these schemes! (Is there a College for Thieves somewhere?)
Which now brings us to something-new-to-be-concerned about since most REALTORS use technology to the max! Redo the identifiers in your phone (and ALL your family member's phones),keep your cell phone on your person, hide the GPS and garage door opener from view , no texting sensitive info, no meeting without voice confirming (clients included!), and I guess ballgames are now out of the question,too!
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