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So then they have my address and keys to it?



Only if you gave them your address and the keys to it. If you gave them a different address or different keys, could be harder...


A bit harder - use of a telephone book would probably solve a fair portion of cases where they didn't just get straight in (assuming you paid with your own credit card and so they had your name).


But if you pay by credit card, that applies to any key copying service, online or not.


Old-fashioned key copying services don't necessarily have the opportunity to make their own copy of your key.


They could just sneakily make a picture of your key.


> So then they have my address and keys to it?

Right, which means if your house is burgled within a reasonable timeframe after you use the service, they're prime suspects.

It's a pretty big risk for them, I should think.


>It's a pretty big risk for them, I should think.

Yes, so all it takes is somebody to rob THEM, and get keys and addresses...


Burglary all the way down.


> Yes, so all it takes is somebody to rob THEM, and get keys and addresses...

Which would legitimately take the heat off of them, so it would be in their interests to fake a robbery of themselves not long before their real robberies of others begin.

Ah, but I'm just getting started! If you wanted to rob houses and frame them, just rob them first. The police and everyone else will think your real robbery was faked by the company, as per my previous paragraph, so you get off scot free.

Robbception, it would be called.




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