THIS HAS BEEN CHECKED ON  SNOPES

My oldest son  came over yesterday - he had to go to Canada for work last week.  One of the other engineers traveling to Canada with him, but in his own car had something happen ... that I need to  share.

While traveling he stopped at the roadside park, similar to what we have here with bathrooms, vending machines etc.  He came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later and found someone had gotten into his car, and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, gps navigator  briefcase ... you name it.

They called the  police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into - the  police told him that there is a device that robbers are using  now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your  car using your key-chain locking device.  

They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim, since they know you are going inside the store, restaurant, or bathroom and have a few minutes to steal and run.  The police office said to be sure to manually lock your car door - by hitting the lock button inside the car; that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim it will not be  you.

When you hit the lock  button on your car upon exiting ... it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your keychain - it sends the code thru the airwaves where it can be stolen.

I just wanted to let you know about this ... it is something totally new to us ... and this is real ... it happened Thursday June 19th to his co-worker ...

So be aware of this and please pass this note on ... look how many times we all lock our doors with our keys ... just to be sure we remembered to lock them ... and bingo, the guys have our code ... and whatever was in the car ... can be gone.

Keep safe  everyone!

Our Thanks to Carol Herzig for sharing this with us.