An airline passenger claims his personal information was leaked after he was spotted by a stranger.
A woman named Kirsten took to TikTok and said she received a text message from someone while waiting for her match.
“I was at the airport and the most horrifying thing happened to me,” she said in the video.
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“I was sitting there during my layover when I received this text message.”
The woman said she was waiting for a flight at the airport when she received a text message on her phone from a stranger. (iStock)
The video shows her walking through the airport and talking about a text that may have been sent moments earlier. She then continues reading the content of the message.
“Hi Kristen, my name is Nate. When I saw you, I thought you were so beautiful that I had to find a way to talk to you. I saw your number on your luggage tag and decided to text you. I promise this isn’t as weird as you think! The message “Give the man a chance” is contained in the video.
She first corrected the stranger’s name to “Kirsten” and not “Kristen.”
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She then went on to say that if Nate, a stranger, wanted to talk to her so badly, he should have approached her “like a normal human being.”
The woman said she felt distressed by the text message she received, calling it an “invasion of her privacy.” (iStock)
Kirsten called the moment “an invasion of privacy.”
“And I get even weirder because my luggage tag has my address on it so he could potentially know where I live now,” Kirsten added.
She concluded the video with her own safety announcement for those traveling.
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“PSA to everyone: Turn your luggage tags inside out so your personal information isn’t visible,” Kirsten said on TikTok.
Kirsten turned the moment into a PSA for all travelers, telling them to “turn your luggage tags over so your personal information isn’t visible.” (iStock)
“And a PSA to all you creepers: Do better.”
Kirsten responded to one of the comments on her video with a suggestion to buy covered luggage tags.
“Yes,” Kirsten said. “I immediately ordered new luggage tags,” he wrote.
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A flight attendant named Ally Case recently went viral on TikTok by sharing her top safety tips, including hacking baggage tags.
One TikTok flight attendant shared safety tips for luggage tags, and the comments were filled with others sharing their luggage hacks. (iStock)
Case, who said he works for American Airlines, recommends that travelers flip the inserts inside the tags so they can be used when needed and personal information is not visible to others.
Case added a caption to the video: “I don’t even like strangers knowing my name. There’s no way my phone number or home address is going to show up.”
Other social media users have shared their own private hacking methods to keep your personal information out of the wrong hands.
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One SNS user said that he writes his work address in the tag instead of his home address, and another user said that he uses the address of his travel destination rather than his home address.
A woman on TikTok said she received a text message from a man after he saw her number on her luggage tag and “looked for a way to talk to (her).” This woman’s story has people sharing their personal safety tips on social media. (iStock)
“I set up a dedicated email address instead,” another user wrote.
A company called security.org advises people to secure “travel itineraries, passports, car rental documents, airline tickets, and boarding passes” when traveling.
“This document contains confidential information that you would not want strangers to stumble upon. For your safety, scan a copy of your passport and keep it in a safe place,” the website says.
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“Keep your passport in a safe place along with your mobile device. Do not leave it in a conspicuous place. If you carry it with you (for example, if you decide not to leave it in a hotel), keep your device and wallet as close to your body as you would carry them with you.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Kirsten, who posts under the handle @kir.a.lo, for comment.
