An airline passenger claims her private information was compromised after a stranger saw her.
A woman named Kirsten on TikTok said she received a text from someone while she was waiting for a fight.
“I'm at the airport and the most terrible thing happened to me,” she said in her video.
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“I'm sitting there on a layover and I get this message.”
The woman said she was waiting for a flight at the airport when a text message was sent to her cell phone from a stranger. (iStock)
The recording shows him walking through the airport talking about a text message that may have been sent moments earlier. Then it reads the content of the message.
“Hi Kristen, my name is Nate. I saw you and thought you were so beautiful, so I had to find a way to talk to you. I saw your number on a luggage tag and decided to text you. I promise it's not As weird as it seems, give the guy a chance,” the message reads.
First, she corrected the stranger, noting that her name was “Kirsten,” not “Kristen.”
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She then added that if the stranger Nate wanted to talk to her so badly, he should have approached her “like a normal person.”
The woman said she was concerned about the text message she received, calling it an “invasion of privacy.” (iStock)
Kirsten called the moment an “invasion of privacy.”
“And I'm extra weird because I have my address on my luggage tag, so he could potentially know where I live now,” Kirsten added.
She ended her video with her own safety message for travelers.
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“PSA to everyone: turn your luggage tag inside out so your personal information isn't visible,” Kirsten said on TikTok.
Kirsten turned the moment into an opportunity for all travelers, telling them to “turn your luggage tag inside out so your personal information isn't visible.” (iStock)
“And a PSA to all you creepers out there: do better.”
Kirsten replied to one of the comments under her video, in which she suggested purchasing a luggage tag with a cover.
“Yes, I immediately ordered new luggage tags,” Kirsten wrote.
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A flight attendant named Ally Case recently gained huge popularity on TikTok for sharing her top safety tips, including hacking a luggage tag.
A flight attendant took to TikTok to share safety tips for luggage tags, and the comments were flooded with others sharing their own travel bag hacks. (iStock)
Case, who said she works for American Airlines, instructs travelers to flip the insert inside the tag so it is accessible when needed and her personal information is not visible to anyone.
“I don't even like strangers knowing my name – there's no way I'll show my phone number and home address,” Case captioned her video.
Other social media users have shared their personal hacks to avoid private information falling into the wrong hands.
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One social media user said that instead of using their home address, they write their work address on their badge, and another person said that they use the address of their destination rather than their home.
A woman on TikTok said she received a text message after a man saw her number on her luggage tag and “found a way to talk to her.” In this woman's story, people share their own ways of keeping themselves safe on social media. (iStock)
“I set up a dedicated email address instead,” another user wrote.
security.org advises people to secure their “itineraries, passports, car rental documents, airline tickets and boarding passes” while traveling.
“These documents contain confidential information that you don't want strangers seeing. For your own safety, scan a copy of your passport and keep it in a safe place,” we read on the website.
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“Keep your passport locked in a safe place with your mobile devices. Don't leave it in plain sight. If you take it with you (and don't want to leave it in a hotel, for example), make sure it's close to your body, just like you would with your devices and wallet.”
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Fox News Digital asked Kirsten, who posts under the pseudonym @kir.a.lo, for comment.
