SUSPECTED CAR THIEF holds a RFID device pointed through a window to capture data from your fob to steal your expensive vehicle. Photo social media.
Toronto seems to be a car theft capital and auto thieves no longer require a tool kit to rip off a vehicle in the middle of the night.
A video posted on social media on October 11 shows security camera footage of how car thieves now steal expensive vehicles as we sleep.
The video captured a thief using a relay method of capturing the Radio-frequency identification (RFID) of a vehicle’s fob.
HI TECH CAR THIEF uses RFID technology to steal data from your fob.
The thief points the RFID device through a front window to pick up the frequency of a fob left lying without a pouch inside the home. It can take the thief a few minutes to scan the information and the snoring residents never detect a thing.
“To thwart this method of heft, place the fob in an RFID protective pouch or other shielding device,” police said.
The said the pouch should always be with you even when you visit public parking lots or other areas.
Police said almost 6,000 vehicles have been stolen in Toronto so far this year. Carjackings in the city has risen 209 per cent from 2021 to 179 so far this year.
The RFID uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromagnetic interrogation pulse from a nearby RFID reader device, the tag transmits digital data, usually an identifying inventory number, back to the reader.