You are probably thinking to yourself, what a crappy picture to use in a blog post. Well there is a guy walking around who has no idea how lucky he is that I saw this on his front seat and snapped a blurry picture and just walked away.
For a while now I have had been planning on writing an article on not leaving things like your mail and ID card visible in your vehicle. But today while getting my morning coffee...one of the holy grail for bad guys and identity thieves, a blank check exposed on the front seat of a vehicle. Here is how easy it is to gather information from things that people unknowingly share with you. Understand that I did not read the information on the checks, just took the blurry picture to illustrate my point.
- I know his name
- I know his wife's name
- I know his address
- I know what bank he uses
- I know his routing number
I waited to see who got in the vehicle so now-
- I know what he looks like and what he drives
- I have his license plate
- I know this is his vehicle and if it's not at his house, neither is he
Luckily he did not have any of those "family" stickers on the back of his truck where people tell you how many kids they have and often their names. This would have given me the first and last names of his kids. I might have even known if he had a dog or not.
When he came out, I could see that he had left his vehicle unlocked. I could have just taken those checks, not all of them, just some from the back so that it took a while for him to notice, giving me time to write a few.
This all happened in minutes. I sure hope I am the only one who looked in his vehicle. In today's world, it is easy to get information on people. That does not mean you should give it away for the world to see.
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