News: RCCL employee accused of burglarizing customers' homes while they cruised

[dnwside]

:(Everyone needs to remember their friendly banker. Who has more personnal info than the banks!? No one ever knows what may be going on in another persons life. Butwho would have ever thought of something like this? Only a very sick minded person would come up with a scheme like this.:(

[temple1]

Really sad to read. Sound like they were not all that hard to catch though.

 

For all the conversations and horror stories - petty crooks are not very smart and usually get caught sooner than later.

 

The ones making out like bandits at our expense wear suits and ties and do so legally. :D

[Tucker in Texas]

What I can't understand is why it took them 7 months to figure out the perp(s)? Police take a report and ask where you were and you tell them. They compare notes with other robberies in the area and, bingo, a common thread pops up--all on Royal Caribbean cruises. From there go to the home office and start asking who would have access to the bookings of those people and, bingo, same name pops up.

 

On our luggage tags we have the name Joseph Ruditiski and the address and phone number of the police station. I don't trust baggage handlers either when they see a routing tag to Europe. We put an itinerary inside the suitcase with our cell phone number in case it takes a different route than we do.

 

We got nosy neighbors, too, who have copies of our itineraries.

 

Tucker in Texas

[BroncosFan2010]

Who cancels their newspaper and mail while they are away? :eek:

 

Gina

 

I have someone pick up the newspaper so it does not pile up and alert people that I am not home, but I do cancel the mail. If I am gone more than 4 days, I don't want that stuff piling up in my mailbox, and I don't want to have to have someone bring it in the house to sit for a week either.

[RoyalCruiser2007]

I posted the article this afternoon. I went back to read it again and the burglar's name seemed familiar. I went to my email and found my weekly email from Royal Caribbean listing the sales and the burglar was my Certified Vacation Planner!!!!!!!

 

To book your favorite itinerary call your Certified Vacation Planner,

Beth Sandoval at 1-888-XXX-XXXX ext. XXXX

or your travel agent.

 

I even remember speaking to her on the phone once!

[Adri204]

There is always someone here and I have great naighbors and loud dogs and loud chickens as well. But thier is always someone here 24/7.

 

Adri :)

[uksimonusa]

Who cancels their newspaper and mail while they are away? :eek:

 

Gina

 

A district manager from Florida Today was just arrested for basically the same thing.

[Crewmates]

The RCCL employee burglarizing customers does not surprise me, but how many people still actually put their home address on their luggage tags? WOW, I really would rather not have everyone at the airport know where I live and that I have just left home, then the taxi driver taking me to the port knows my address also. Name and phone number is all the info on my luggage tag.

 

I hope you're home number is unpublished because with Reverse Look-up on the internet, it only takes seconds to find out your home address. For the fun of it, go to reverse look-up on Whitepages and try your home number and see what you get. It will either make you worry or make you "chuckle".

[CruiseMor]

I posted the article this afternoon. I went back to read it again and the burglar's name seemed familiar. I went to my email and found my weekly email from Royal Caribbean listing the sales and the burglar was my Certified Vacation Planner!!!!!!!

 

To book your favorite itinerary call your Certified Vacation Planner,

Beth Sandoval at 1-888-XXX-XXXX ext. XXXX

or your travel agent.

 

I even remember speaking to her on the phone once!

 

RoyalCruiser2007 - Your post started me thinking that maybe she was our Certified Vacation Planner as well and I just checked my email to confirm she was!! I talked with her some time ago on the phone but I don't think we booked our cruise with her. I think I still have her number in my reference information and will be sure to toss it.

[onyourtoes]

:eek:

 

Yikes! We always have a house sitter/animal sitter while we cruise.

 

 

I don't feed my python "Squeezer" the day I leave:eek:. Anyone who wants to come into my house, I'm sure Squeezer would love to have them for lunch, dinner, an appetizer, whatever:eek:

 

I don't really have a snake. LOL

[Bakincakes]

A district manager from Florida Today was just arrested for basically the same thing.

 

 

:eek:

[MIcruiser99]

:(Everyone needs to remember their friendly banker. Who has more personnal info than the banks!? No one ever knows what may be going on in another persons life. Butwho would have ever thought of something like this? Only a very sick minded person would come up with a scheme like this.:(

 

I am paranoid about giving all my personal information to each doctor we visit. They need your DOB, SS#, everything. Pretty easy for identity thieves.

[spirite]

"Burglarizing" is such a great American-English word. In England, burglers simply "burgle" - no where near such a great word.

[grand isle joe]

"Burglarizing" is such a great American-English word. In England, burglers simply "burgle" - no where near such a great word.

 

I agree. Burglarizing denotes action or danger.

 

 

God save the Queen.:)

[Bakincakes]

I am paranoid about giving all my personal information to each doctor we visit. They need your DOB, SS#, everything. Pretty easy for identity thieves.

 

 

Hate to tell you this but most medical/dental insurance companies are outsourcing their claims work. They give the same info to people in many different countries..so your info just isn't within the US.

 

A patient overheard one of our insurance specialists giving her info on an insurance phone call..the gal at the desk had to spell the womans name numerous times..when the patient asked why the gal told her she was speaking to someone in India about her insurance claim. The patient was very upset. We told her she had to speak to her insurance company, Metlife, and tell them she wasn't happy about her personal info traveling about the world.

 

Most companies will now allow you to request that someone in the US handle the claims calls. But beware..some workers in foreign countries get upset when you ask for a US agent and will disconnect your call regardless of how long you may have been on hold.:rolleyes::mad:

[BroncosFan2010]

I posted the article this afternoon. I went back to read it again and the burglar's name seemed familiar. I went to my email and found my weekly email from Royal Caribbean listing the sales and the burglar was my Certified Vacation Planner!!!!!!!

 

To book your favorite itinerary call your Certified Vacation Planner,

Beth Sandoval at 1-888-XXX-XXXX ext. XXXX

or your travel agent.

 

I even remember speaking to her on the phone once!

 

WOW, That is pretty scary!

[Ocean Boy]

What is interesting about this to me is that I have actually had dealings with this person. She had contacted me about a cruise that I had put on hold and said she would now be my certified vacation planner. I then tried to call here back several times and never got a response. I then e-mailed her, and sent a copy of it to coprorate, stating that due to a lack of response on her part to my inquiies that she could now consider herself as NOT being MY certified vacation planner.

 

Very interesting to read the article.

[Ocean Boy]

I am paranoid about giving all my personal information to each doctor we visit. They need your DOB, SS#, everything. Pretty easy for identity thieves.

 

It isn't just patient information. Physicians have to place certain information concerning themselves on each claim form in order to get reimbursement. Even though we have contracts with some insurance companies and all of our information is on file with them they insist that the information be put on each claim form. We are at just as much risk as the patients with having our information stolen.

 

In fact, on two occasions now, I have had credit report monitoring offered to me because of personal information on me that went missing because of stolen computers. And one of the incidents involved Medicare. Even our Federal Government agencies can't protect the information that they require you to fork over to them.

[MrPete]

True-but I've read some things in roll call threads that would make it very easy for someone to find that persons house!! :eek:

 

Oh, I agree completely. Some people post WAY too much personal information, that a simple search on Google not only tells you a persons name and phone number, but DIRECTIONS TO THEIR HOUSE! :eek:

[babyher]

I have been a 9-1-1 dispatcher for 26 years and deal with pretty much every alarm company there is for burgler and fire alarms.

 

Believe me you don't have to be a mastermind criminal to get into a house or business and rob them blind. Pick your target, do a little observation and see a pattern. bide your time, and you're in .

 

In some cases they may be a deterrant, but in the end if they want to get in, they are getting in.

[Aquahound]

"Burglarizing" is such a great American-English word. In England, burglers simply "burgle" - no where near such a great word.

 

In our criminal statutes, the elements of Burglary are:

 

1. Unlawful entry

2. Into a dwelling, structure, or conveyance

3. With intent to commit another crime therein

 

In their case, the crimes therein were Theft of items and Criminal Mischief for the glass doors they destroyed.

[spirite]

In our criminal statutes, the elements of Burglary are:

 

Surely you mean "elements of burglarization"?;)

[Poorplaya]

From the Sun Sentinel:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-royal-caribbean-employee-burglarie20100611,0,2152349.story

 

All I can say is WOW

[crusinmama06]

I posted the article this afternoon. I went back to read it again and the burglar's name seemed familiar. I went to my email and found my weekly email from Royal Caribbean listing the sales and the burglar was my Certified Vacation Planner!!!!!!!I even remember speaking to her on the phone once!

 

See, this is the best argument yet for using a trusted TA and not booking direct! :p:D

 

Sorry, I am JUST JOKING. I just couldn't resists injecting a little humor. ;)

 

Its horrible what this woman (and husband) has done. And did you see that she is pregnant (the one article said it I think)? :eek: Now the child will be born in jail -- niiiice.

[bluegirlum]

In our criminal statutes, the elements of Burglary are:

 

1. Unlawful entry

2. Into a dwelling, structure, or conveyance

3. With intent to commit another crime therein

 

In their case, the crimes therein were Theft of items and Criminal Mischief for the glass doors they destroyed.

 

Aquahound, this is getting scary. I looked up the elements of burglary too! :eek: (I did not do well in crim law, and always get them confused! :)