QuIcKsIlVeR's blog: "Race"

A couple of weeks ago a friend told me
> > that someone she knew had
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> > their car broken into while they were at
> > a football game. Their car was
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> > parked on the green which was adjacent
> > to the football stadium and
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> > specially allotted to football fans.
> > Things stolen from the car included
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> > a garage door remote control, some money
> > and a GPS which had been
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> > prominently mounted on the
> > dashboard.
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> > When the victims got home, they found
> > that their house had been
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> > ransacked and just about everything
> > worth anything had been stolen.
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> > The thieves had used the GPS to guide
> > them to the house. They then
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> > used the garage remote control to open
> > the garage door and gain
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> > entry to the house. The thieves knew the
> > owners were at the football
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> > game, they knew what time the game was
> > scheduled to finish and so
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> > they knew how much time they had to
> > clean out the house. It would
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> > appear that they had brought a truck to
> > empty the house of its contents.
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> > 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.
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> > CELL PHONES
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> > I never thought of this.......
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> > This lady has now changed her habit of
> > how she lists her names on
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> > her mobile phone after her handbag was
> > stolen. Her handbag, which
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> > contained her cell phone, credit card,
> > wallet etc, was stolen.
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> > 20 minutes later when she called her
> > hubby, from a pay phone telling
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> > him what had happened, hubby says 'I
> > received your text asking
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> > about our pin number and I replied a
> > little while ago.'
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> > When they rushed down to the bank, the
> > bank staff told them all the
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> > money was already withdrawn. The thief
> > had actually used the stolen
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> > cell phone to text 'hubby' in
> > the contact list and got hold of the pin
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> > number. Within 20 minutes he had
> > withdrawn all the money from their
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> > bank account.
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> > Moral of
> > the lesson:
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> > 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.
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> > ALSO, WHEN
> > YOU'RE SENT A TEXT BY FRIENDS OR FAMILY TO MEET THEM
> > SOMEWHERE, 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.
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> > Be alert – be safe!
> > Sheriff Drew Alexander
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> > Hotmail: Free, trusted and
> > rich email service. Get
> > it now.
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