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Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by tnel77 »

golergka wrote: post #116
KennyBlanken wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So basically, we're at the point where we need to uniquely mark our luggage and then if our luggage is "lost" have an agent who shows up at the liquidation center, identifies it, and then seizes the luggage?

Or you could just put an airtag into it.

I put AirTags into my luggage and it just made me stressed for both legs of my trip. One of my family’s three bags didn’t appear to be moved to the next plane and I just had to sit there and hope that the AirTag wasn’t picked up for some reason. Everything made it to my destination and back home without issue, thankfully.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by RecycledEle »

I suggest we ask everyone to put a piece of paper with their name, phone number, email, and street address in every piece of luggage. Then, after some period of time (maybe 7 days) of being unclaimed, an airline person could crack it open and ship it to the address inside, with a notification to the email and phone number.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by RecycledEle »

sandworm101 wrote: post #77
jabroni_salad wrote: post #56

As someone who has been in a similar space, I guarantee you over half of those luggages do have identified owners who simply aren't contactable because they will not answer the phone, check a voicemail, read their email, or open any letter addressed to them. It takes two to tango and nobody knows how to dance.

I was at a convention once listening to an FBI agent talk about contacting companies that had been hacked. They would not reply to emails or even open letters labeled "FBI". The likelihood of a scam was just too high. So they asked the room what it would take for us to believe that an unsolicited communication came from the real FBI. In short, the room wanted Mulder and Scully at the front door, in suits, with badges…

This is why we should be arresting scammers that we can arrest, and targeting the rest for air strikes.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by RecycledEle »

technick wrote: post #95
sandworm101 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was at a convention once listening to an FBI agent talk about contacting companies that had been hacked. They would not reply to emails or even open letters labeled "FBI". The likelihood of a scam was just too high. So they asked the room what it would take for us to believe that an unsolicited communication came from the real FBI. In short, the room wanted Mulder and Scully at the front door, in suits, with badges…

I was forced to deal with an FBI agent last year. I authenticated him by calling the local FBI office and asking the person who answered to authenticate the agent. I got the number of the FBI office off way back machine.

Respectfully, if you call any law enforcement agency, and totally make up a claim about someone at your door, they will claim that person works for them and is official.

Operators lie.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by sweetgiorni »

RecycledEle wrote: post #137
technick wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was forced to deal with an FBI agent last year. I authenticated him by calling the local FBI office and asking the person who answered to authenticate the agent. I got the number of the FBI office off way back machine.

Respectfully, if you call any law enforcement agency, and totally make up a claim about someone at your door, they will claim that person works for them and is official. Operators lie.

What? This seems hard to believe. What incentive do operators have to support law enforcement impersonators?

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by victorarevalo »

cpncrunch wrote: post #68
victorarevalo wrote: post #51

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I use Tile for this purpose and they work well. Not as good as airtag, but I don't have an iphone.

The problem is they have a much smaller network than airtags, as much fewer people have a Tile than an iPhone, so I'm not sure how useful it is at actually tracking. What are the chances of a rampie or baggage office employee owning a Tile vs having an iPhone in their pocket?

At airports there is never a problem. I also have recovered my stolen wallet (stashed in the garbage a few blocks away, with IDs still in it) using it. An airtag would always be better, but I really do think Tile is not too bad. Far better than nothing, if you aren't in the Apple ecosystem.

Tile does display the number of users in your area in the app. Not sure how reliable those numbers are but it's regularly in the hundreds in places like busy airports.

Re: A company that sells lost airplane luggage

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Post by guru4consulting »

njharman wrote: post #98
technick wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was forced to deal with an FBI agent last year. I authenticated him by calling the local FBI office and asking the person who answered to authenticate the agent. I got the number of the FBI office off way back machine.

> off way back machine. +1 for practical paranoia!

wayback machine? why not the regular official website? sorry, I don't understand.
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