Don’t use your key-chain locking device

[mmckee1952]

I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation. I quickly chucked the errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars. Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening....
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While traveling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, briefcase.....you name it. He called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic -- 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..
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They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said 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.
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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 key chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen
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Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on. Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo, someone has our code...and whatever was in our car.

Sent fro a friend of mine.

[WRW]

I thought "lock" and "unlock" were two different signals, so that if you only locked there would be no unlock signal to clone.

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[MarcSpaz]

Not only are they two different signals, but the story is Complete BS. I recently had a remote cloned intentionally so I could add a third key to my car. With one remote next to the programmer and it took 15 minutes to get it to work with all functions programmed correctly. No way are those keys getting clone from more than a few inches apart from the programmer.

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[SHMIV]

Well, not complete BS; just partly BS:

1st, there's this...

https://www.truthorfiction.com/carlock/

But then, this:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automo ... _locks.htm

Some news on the subject :

http://www.today.com/news/police-admit- ... 6C10169993

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... -steal-car

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/breaki ... d=17367442

So, what I'm getting, is that while the specific threat from the OP isn't something to worry about, there is still a similar and equal threat. Remember when we were taught not to leave valuables in the car, at least not visible? Still applies. Really, the windows are still breakable.

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