Car thieves are increasingly taking advantage of vehicle owners who leave keyless entry remotes (also known as a key fob) inside their cars, with new statistics showing that such thefts are occurring every six and a half minutes in the US.
The number of these thefts, which are being termed ‘freebie thefts’, has grown by 22% since 2014 to a total of 57,096 thefts in 2015, according to statistics released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Over a three year period from 2013 to 2015, the NICB reported a total of 147,434 vehicles that were…
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