Cloning Car Alarms

You know those nice little "clicky" things that you press the button and the car beeps at you to let you know where it is hiding at. Well is appears that the local thieves have devised a way to clone the car signals.

I know this because my son's car was broken into the other night and the car alarm did not go off. The car was parked and locked in out driveway. We always double lock the car, once when we get out and then once again on the porch to assure that the car is locked. It is a habit that I have been doing for ages. When we got up in the morning I noticed a bunch of "stuff" lying around his car. I looked at the car and there was no physical damage. It just looked like someone had gone through and left a mess.

I called my son and we used his remote to open the car doors. Yes the car was locked. When we looked inside we found that he had been robbed. There were several things missing, his CD case, an IPOD, a camera that was in his glove compartment, his Oakley Sunglasses, which I have not heard the last of I believe he misses those glasses the most and they took a bottle of Cool Water Cologne that was sitting in the driver's side area.

When we called the police to make a report a neighbor came out and told us that her car had recently been robbed. She said that her car was locked and there was not broken glass or forced entry. She told me that there were reports of thefts by cloning. It appears that some ingenious thieves have stolen a bunch of key alarms and are cloning signals. Then they walk up and down the street clicking away until one of the " tunes" matches a car and the car opens up without setting off the alarm. They don't have a key; they just have the mechanism that opens the door.

When I spoke to the police they told me the same thing. I am now writing a letter to Hyundai to complain about the anti theft devise that isn't working as an anti theft devise. Will see what they have to say. All I know is that if these people actually got into our car by cloning a devise then none of us is safe.

Welcome to Baltimore!!!!!