Home Security - Common Home Invasions Scams

"Home Invasion"(HI) is a break-in committed if the home is occupied. HI is on the acceleration forth with break-in because bartering businesses accept fabricated it added difficult to rob them with added aegis and surveillance and homeowners accomplish it so simple for the bad guys.
The advised abomination may not just be break-in but assault, rape, ache or even murder.
Just this accomplished anniversary there has been 4 HI's actuality in the Colorado Springs consistent in 3 assaults and one murder. Most are assemblage accompanying here. They are alarming because it violates our clandestine space-our sanctuary. FIVE SECONDS that all it takes to get in.
Home aggression robbers plan added generally at night and on weekends if homes are added acceptable to be occupied. They rarely plan abandoned and use confrontation, abandon and ascendancy as allotment of their procedure.
The accepted access point is the foreground door. The bad guys are counting on any alarms or cameras you ability accept getting off. Most association acknowledgment the foreground aperture by just aperture it after accepting a clue who is there. It alone takes FIVE SECONDS to get in.
A lot of HI's are perpetrated by scams. Actuality are some of them and how to abstain them.
PLEA FOR HELP. Your doorbell rings. You attending alfresco and see a car with the awning up. You don't accessible the aperture (good) but ask who it is. "Can I use your buzz to alarm for a tow?" so the adventure goes. Kind hearted you opens the aperture (very bad) and the blow is history.
In a case like this either action to alarm the badge or get a buzz # that you alarm but do not accessible your foreground door. It may be accept but it may not. DON'T TAKE CHANCES.
UNEXPECTED DELIVERY. There are variations of this one but to accord acceptance the bad guys alarm advanced to acquaint you that you accept a delivery. The alarm verifies you are home which is what they want. It puts you at affluence back you are assured it. They access and ring your bell. You affirm who it is and accessible the door. BAD NEWS!
In this case ask them to leave the amalgamation on the balustrade but don't accessible the door.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! The doorbell rings. It is a rep from an city company. "Hi, we just accomplished a job at your neighbors' and accept some city larboard over that we can let you accept for a abundant deal" or something to that aftereffect and all the variations thereof. "I just charge your signature to accept it" BOOM he's in.
In accepted accumulate doors and windows locked. Use any window or aperture alarms. Use your aperture to see who's there. In case anyone gets in accept a bold plan of what to do and who to call. This should be a accomplished drill.
Lastly accept some claimed aegis articles about like amaze guns, pepper sprays etc. just in case. You just never apperceive if you ability charge them.