I hope some BR members will think this is useful. If I lost my wallet or had my car broken into I wouldn't know where to start re getting replacement docs, contact numbers of card companies etc. Even if I had the numbers they would probably be in the missing wallet!
I have seen it suggested that one should photocopy passport and car documents and make a list of relevant elephone numbers and anything important to one and then include the text and attachments in an e mail which one sends to oneself. Then, so long as one can get internet access it should be possible to retrieve this information aywhere in the World. This sounds like a good idea and should be secure. Can anybody see a downside that I have (probably) missed?
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Depends whether you think your email account is hacker-proof!
I'd suggest leaving the details with a friend who has a safe to put them away securely - you can then phone your friend if you need the information.
Edited by Marlot on 25/03/2009 at 10:51
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I have mine registered with a company-did have my passport and cards stolen and the firm contacted all the card issuers for me and within days everything replaced at no cost to me other than the membership fee-even could reverse phone charges.
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If you email anything like this to yourself and leave it on a mail server like Googlemail or Yahoo mail then make sure the files are encrypted.
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Just ask the government for the missing info. After all, they know everything about us.
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We have an account with Sentinal:
www.sentinelcardprotection.com/
They use just one freephone number for access and will take care of all the mundane contacting and arranging for you.
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Armitage, We`ve been doing what you suggest for some time. We go really off the beaten track sometimes out in the far east and it gives confidence that if you were robbed and stripped bare, E-tickets, passports etc would be instantly available.
I guess its trying to quantify the risks really. When we are in the Philippines the risk is quite high, we don`t enter the country with money on us, having previously sent it direct to our account there.
For European travel, we don`t bother.
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I would also add another scenario to this - house fire.
Once you have had the experience of standing outside your house, whilst flames are leaping through the roof and you don't have a clue who your house insurance is with, this then prompts you to have another method of accessing your paperwork.
Another suggestion has been muted before is using your mobile phone to save a message with ins co, pol nums etc.
It also goes down as one of the most nervous phone calls I have made, once I established who my insurer was! Took my details, phoned me back half an hour later to say that I was covered. For that half hour all I can think of was what if ins has been cancelled for some reason, the DD hasn't came off and been voided or something!!
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I've had the same thoughts recently and I now have a fire safe at home with essential documents in it (insurances etc)
I also scan in and upload documents to my account at www.box.net so I can access them anywhere in the world, if the firesafe doesn't work and I have to access documents by other means.
Regarding data protection, for really important documents or if you're emailing things to yourself, put them in Word or Adobe Acrobat format and password protect them.
Chris.
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