I worked at golf resorts for a while and dealt with elite 1% asshats for many years. I'm not going to give anyone a playbook for stealing identities, but billionaires are notoriously careless with their bank information. In a hotel, there are times when you need a credit card authorization form faxed. It's a major security risk to send it through any other electronic way, but these one-percenters see all that as an inconvenience. They will be like, 'Listen - I don't give a shit. I don't care about your policy. You're going to take my info however I give it to you.'
My brother's ex and my cousin's girlfriend worked as cleaners at the Charlotte Hotel in Rosewood, London, and the one in Mayfair... They and others often found the stuff some patrons left behind. Shopping bags, perfumes, random luggage, clothes, laptops, cameras, phones, and chargers. The hotel usually held them in the lost property storage for at least one month. The more expensive an item, the longer they kept it in storage (capping at six months). They destroyed unclaimed laptops, phones, and passports after six months. But they got to keep some of the other stuff they found (that's how my cousin got a Leica Q2 camera from his girlfriend as a birthday present). One of the weirdest things they found was a wooden box of long hair bound in a ribbon. The patron called to get this box back (apparently it was his late granddaughter's hair).
I worked in a super fancy hotel and the secrets of the staff can be outrageous. The lengths to which guests go to maintain their privacy often leads to some really bizarre interactions with staff. From misplaced personal items that are both valuable and sentimental, to guests using the back doors to avoid being seen by the public, the entire experience can be surreal behind the scenes.
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