The latest Digital Criminal 2012 CyberSafety Report from Legal & General highlights the fact that sites with the focus on flathunting or rooms for rent can prove goldmines of information for local burglars.

In the current economy, more people are renting out rooms within their homes to lodgers or even furnished accommodation as complete houses. The best way to advertise these quickly and cheaply is on the internet and there are a variety of sites expressly for this purpose.

You can upload the details of the let, along with pictures of the available room/house/flat and these may contain valuable items. The entry also helpfully shows where the house is located - sometimes with a nice Google map.

Today's sophisticated digital criminal has homed in on this new trend.

By arranging to go and see such a room, a burglar can get an idea of when the house will be empty so they can go and pick up all the goods that were just advertised in the pictures.

It's the equivalent of online shopping for them.

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The best protection against such an eventuality is a professionally fitted burglar alarm and a home CCTV system that will record anyone who comes near the property whether it is occupied or empty.

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