“Ever wonder what is on your magnetic key card?”
This was the title of one of those e-mail chains.
“Answer:
a. Customer’s name
b. Customer’s partial home address
c. Hotel room number
d. Check-in date and out dates
e. Customer’s credit card number and expiration date! ”
Yes, e. was in red and the e-mail ended with “Information courtesy of: Metropolitan Police Service. PLEASE FORWARD to friends and family .”
Yes, of course :).
However, I was curious how this hoax started so the place to go is snopes.com and it is an interesting article:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp