Your car may be vulnerable to theft.

An organized crime network of thieves may be waiting to steal your car! Every year, tens of thousands of vehicles are stolen from driveways, parking lots, or off the street and shipped to foreign countries where they are never seen again. If your key fob broadcasts a radio signal to open and start your car, thieves can highjack the signal to break-in and steal your belongings or start up the car and steal the vehicle itself.

How do the thieves steal your car?

Modern key fobs continuously broadcast a radio frequency so that when you approach your vehicle you can open it without a key. Then with the fob in your pocket or in your purse, you can start the car with a push of a button. But with this convenient technology, thieves have come up with ways to take advantage of it. They use three main techniques.