Top Personal Safety And Security Tips

Keep your car key fob reachable in the bed

Your night table is a good storage location.Car fobs contain panic switches, and may double as a great alarm in the event of emergency. Pressing the panic button will cause your vehicle to advertising burst its own horn and flash its headlights - in case your car is in the driveway this can draw attention to a place and (hopefully) frighten would-be-criminals away. Police responding to a telephone may find your home faster as well. Of course, if you reside in a high-rise apartment, or otherwise do not store your car someplace where it can function as an alarm mechanism, then the key-fob alarm is not going to supply this advantage. Also, think about keeping your keyfob wrapped in aluminum foil - some automobiles can be broken to using apparatus that relay and boost signals from distant keyfobs; wrap a fob in aluminum foil as it isn't in use can protect against such crimes.

Set the house address in your smartphone, GPS, and other apparatus to a speech near your home, but not to a actual home address.

If someone steals your phone or breaks in your car while you are away from your home, you do not want to have the crook to attempt to rob your home or call friends in the region to do so. Theoretically, any paperwork in a car that has your home address should be kept locked up in the glove compartment to lessen the danger of that information being misused for similar nefarious purposes, but, realistically, that's an inconvenience which most people are unwilling to survive, and newspapers are somewhat less likely than electronic equipment to get swiped during a quick break-in.

Lock up harmful drugs which are candidates for misuse.

If you've got such prescription medications at home don't store them in medication cabinets which are accessible by people or anywhere else where people may strike them. You don't know the private demons of everybody who visits your house - many people suffer from dependency issues; the same may hold true for the other residents of your house.

Check for skimmers and concealed cameras.

Before making a credit card payment or with the ATM machine, check the device for added-on cameras or "skimming technology." If a card reader appears to have been tampered with something appears strange about an ATM machine, find another machine and notify someone in the shop or lender which something may be amiss. Obviously, do exactly the exact same for almost any device which requires a biometric read of yourself - if something appears to have already been added to the apparatus, do not provide the machine with your own fingerprints, or let it scan your iris, etc..

don't have conversations with "wrong number" callers.

Never give any information about yourself to someone who reaches you at a "wrong amount;" callers might not have really bothers you by accident - they are criminals trying to find information in an attempt to target you for identity theft or worse.

Don't overshare on social media.

People have a propensity to post vacation pictures while still far from home - however, if such information is seen from the wrong sets of eyes that it may result in attempts to rob your house. Also, do not respond to social-media invitations to events that involve all the occupants of your home - doing so can let the general public know ahead of time that nobody will be home at a certain time. There are a lot of different examples of just what to share on societal websites - the bottom line is think twice before posting, also, whenever possible, utilize technology to address any errors in this regard. (Full disclosure: SecureMySocial, of which I am the CEO, provides technology within this industry and owns a related US patent.)