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Home » Flight tickets » Warning: Thieves strike at airport security!
Warning: Thieves strike at airport security!
A Latin American gang operates at airports in Europe and specializes in thefts at airline passenger security checkpoints.
They work very shrewdly, the police discovered during an investigation at Brussels Airport where 1.200 euros disappeared from a victim's wallet.
The gang would fly from airport to airport during high season in Europe. They book cheap tickets and once at the hand luggage security check they observe passengers who have to place their wallets, phones and jewelery in trays on the conveyor belt for scanning. Because those containers are checked a little faster than the passengers themselves, they often stand unattended for several minutes waiting for the owners. That's when the thieves strike.
A Belgian fell victim to the gang at Brussels Airport in mid-July. Images from the security camera show how he was robbed by a couple who had been watching him for a long time. The duo would travel around with fake Mexican papers. The gang is elusive for now. The police are calling for vigilance at the airport.
Source: HLN.be
I reported that last week. Years ago I was stripped of my cell phone because I was still waiting at the gate for control. My belongings had long passed the Xray by then. The man in front of me kept making a beep and had to be taken individually. This happened at Schiphol.
Fourteen days ago the same on departure from Perth. I was still being checked when everything was already in the trays at the back end of the Xray. Ok the plastic bag with my coin money, I think one should wait until the owner supervises the scanned objects. Now the reason was that the laptop had to be opened for inspection.
The same thing happens at the baggage carousel, no one checks who takes the bags or who they belong to.
I already reported this in the article about left luggage earlier this week.
The original message about this specific theft dates back to July 14.
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenland/article/detail/2393861/2015/07/14/Portefeuille-door-security-euro1-200-weg.dhtml
Yesterday the message appeared that the perpetrators of this theft have been identified, but they are still walking around freely somewhere.
They will keep quiet for a while now, but they will certainly start again, otherwise other groups will be active.
The fact that luggage disappears on the conveyor belt has also been reported several times in the media, and it must also have been discussed a few times on the blog.
Presumably it is also the same groups that take your luggage after the flight, because they probably only leave with some hand luggage.
I think it is clear that there should be a better control system for the luggage.
So nothing new and everyone will be aware of it, but I think it's a good thing to bring it to the attention once in a while.
It's good that you reported it last week, but it shouldn't stop there.
Not everyone reads all comments.
I was always suspicious. Therefore, always put my wallet and all paper money in my trouser pockets. If they complain "that it has to be on tape" I refuse, unless they guarantee it. They never do, so I always get my way.
Also always take that one minute afterwards to check if everything is still there.
They have to wait until it's your turn at the gate
you are waiting for a very long time as people go through the gate every time before you
must .Anyone can grab anything.
Just prepare well, put everything in your bag, and lock your bag. The security officer also saves a search turn, and the people behind you have to wait less long.
This last advice is ok but not sufficient at Schiphol. After checking at the body scan gate (arms high) and if nothing alarming is found, you will still be searched (lightly) by a security employee. Ridiculous after the previous check and just long enough that you cannot reach your things to “catch”.
sabine
Thanks for Jasper's tip.
What I always do is to put my wallet, mobile and watch in my hand luggage before the security check.
That way you do not show your valuables.
Besides, during a “security check” you can expect to get your own belongings back. This service should be held responsible in the event of theft.
Indeed, so do I. Everything in hand luggage. Nothing loose in the tank at all.
I also experienced a few years ago that someone suddenly lost a gold watch during that check. And then? Then you're there.
After that I walked by the Marechaussee at Schiphol, told this story and asked who I could still call at that time. Because not those people from the control because they can also be the perpetrators themselves. Since then, the telephone number of the Marechaussee has been in my mobile. If something happens to me after the check, I can at least call them. hereby the number: 020-6038222
I always do my money, tel. ect. in my hand luggage,
that's easier to keep an eye on than anything
separate.
Especially at Schiphol it is a mess! Trays disappear from sight! Your iPhone, jewelery and cash are up for grabs!
Arguing every time! I refuse! Cheeky employees open my wallet! Why?
Chief gets called in, etc. I spend a lot of time there on that tape.
If you go through a scan and there is still something in your pocket, this must be checked, there may be a hidden knife in your wallet. Just like several people say, put everything in the bag. This is easier for you and for the employee, and saves you time. You are going to Thailand anyway, be happy. Security check is unfortunately necessary in these times. I also want to be safe on board with my family.
Last week I went to watch a football match in Austria, leaving from Düsseldorf. My bag was gone. Upon inquiry caught by customs because I still had a bottle of water in the bag, this had to be taken out of the bag. It turns out that the plane is sitting next to me with a Pole with his own rather large bottle of drinking water; So the controls aren't watertight after all.
And so that security check is not much.
Did you ask the Pole how it is possible that he took his water bottle with him? I can do that without any problems…solution: empty the bottle before the check. After the check, you go to the toilet and fill the bottle with tap water…. see the solution here.
Trust me, they'll find the vials. A few months ago I should have left my bottle of cachaça from Brazil in Düsseldorf. It was also intended for Thailand. The clerk was kind enough to let me go back and check in the bottle with my backpack. Unfortunately, my backpack was not suitable for this - the bottle would most likely break. So I had to leave this one…. what a shame!
That is unfortunately true…
Experienced in practice that hand luggage is taken out of sight of passengers by security guards. In that time, everything can be taken in and out. I checked my bag immediately after the check, but what if money or your iPad is missing?
Schiphol should know better. It reminds me again of the words of a profiler at Schiphol who was not very flattering about his security colleagues. Something about monkeys in a suit and a show for the people.
If it is reported in the newspaper that the gang is 'for the time being elusive', they will chuckle.
I always store my money and bank cards in a travel bag, this bag is under my underpants and pants. . I just go through the gates and have never been checked.
As long as there is no metal in it, the gate will not beep.
I always carry two wallets with me, one in one pocket and one in the other. The wallet with coins and money for expenses along the way goes in the compartment, the other one with only notes remains in the pants. Those gates are - of course - not very sharply adjusted, I have not yet had to take off my pants with six metal zippers.
1 time had to queue for a really long time at immigration... My suitcase had been spinning lonely circles on the baggage carousel for a while. I rushed to it and quickly took it off the belt. Then immediately a woman came to me and asked me for proof that it was my suitcase… That is the only time I was checked for that…
No, the gates don't beep, but everything can be seen through the "full body scan".
I don't find it surprising that there are thieves at an airport. Certainly not in Brussels where passport control is already a joke. The control is always the same if you take a little picture
then you can enter or leave without further control. (Access to all of Europe!)
That is, of course, an open invitation to all criminals worldwide.
With a simple digital photo and scan of a passport, as in Thailand, many criminals could be unmasked.
Cards and cash in a bag with a plastic zipper on my body and the rest in locked hand luggage.
Last week I went through security checks 8 times in 9 days: 1x Bangkok, 1x Düsseldorf, 6x in Frankfurt and once in Copenhagen.
I could keep an eye on my luggage from anywhere. I always left my money (except for a few coins) in my closed hand luggage. The only thing that really needed to be scanned separately was my phone and tablet PCs.
As soon as I got through the scanner, I was able to get the bins with my stuff. Nowhere were these left alone. And in all cases I was waiting for my stuff at the end of the control corridor.
But I have often seen people who still had coins in their pockets, wore a buckle with metal or wore other items on their body, so that they had to be scanned again. These people – their own fault – were not in time to collect their own belongings. And although there is almost always someone from security watching, these people were more likely to have something stolen.
Anyway, there are many airports and the chance is not excluded that it can happen. However, the risk that people forget to take something with them is, in my opinion, greater than the risk that something is stolen.
With the new inspection at Schiphol, you no longer have any view of your belongings. We put the stuff in the airtravel locked and my handbag is locked. They are not friendly my husband had to address him with you. Now he has done the checks himself for over 25 years and his boss was there and he confronted that person about it. So everything is locked, no problems, if it has to be opened, you are there yourself.
I was confused for a moment. That you might find it strange that your husband had to address him as U, was probably because he was an ex-colleague? Otherwise, I think it's normal that you address someone in the Netherlands as U? Here in Thailand we may be a little less formal, but when I am in the Netherlands or Germany, I will never address anyone as you, especially not when it concerns someone who performs his work in relation to me. I always think a bit old-fashioned and you and you belong a bit to a “more intimate tone”…. which I do not share with waiter, inspector or any other working person….