IT feels helpful to forward an email that claims to expose a security problem - but who checks whether it is in fact true?
Action Desk, that's who.
A message has been doing the rounds which claims to reveal the risk of fraud linked to hotel key cards.
It is claimed your name, home address, check-in and out dates and even credit card details are scanned into the card - until the next customer comes along.
It claims an employee could take a handful of cards home and, using a scanning device, access the information on a computer - "and go shopping at your expense". It also claims the information is courtesy of the 'Police Service'.
But Bob Cotton of the British Hospitality Association says the email is bogus.
The association checked with card manufacturers and the only information scanned on to them is room number and checkout time.
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