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The National Insurance Crime Bureau, an investigative agency sponsored bythe insurance industry, reports that thieves are using electronic "scannerboxes" to send a signal that replicates those transmitted by a car owner'skey fob to open doors and steal personal items. "Our law enforcementpartners tell us they are seeing this type of criminal activity and haverecovered some of the illegal devices," Joe Wehrle, NICB CEO, said in astatement.
But while these types of break-ins have been reported from California toIllinois and the devices have been spotted for sale on the Internet, policestill don't know exactly what the gadgets are or how criminals are gettingtheir hands on them.
A home surveillance video shot in Long Beach, California, last year caughton camera two thieves burglarizing a pair of locked SUVs in a driveway. Thefirst suspect can be seen carrying a small device in one hand, according tolocal police who viewed the footage. Although barely visible in theblack-and-white video shot at night, he aims it at the car and is able tounlock the passenger-side front door and gain entry to the vehicle. A secondsuspect does the same thing to another SUV parked in the driveway.
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