How To Protect Your Valuables From A Safecracker

You've probably seen some movies where a suave and sophisticated cat burglar has broken into a mansion, found a safe, put his hear up to the tumbler, turned the dial, and opened the safe to disclose a king's ransom in jewels and cash.

This sounds very thrilling and romantic - provided you're not the victim. But cracking a safe can be a lot easier or a lot harder than what we see on the big screen.

But why is it important to understand how a burglar cracks a safe? It's really important if you want to protect your valuables because the more you know about safecracking the easier it will be to protect them.

Most professional safecrackers don't really crack safes. However, they do know that the easiest way to get at the contents of a safe is to know all that they can about it.

So, the first thing to know is that you should buy the type of safe you need.

Different types of safes are built for different situations. For example, let's say that you're a trust attorney. If so, you will probably need to own a fire safe because they are built to withstand a lot of intense heat. So, if there's a fire in your building your clients documents - their wills, etc - should remain intact.

However, because these safes are built to protect documents if there's a fire, they usually are not built with high security in mind. Therefore, they are quite easy to break into. So, you would not want to keep other valuables in a fire safe.

Now, safes that are designed with security in mind will usually melt if there's intense heat. That's because they are made of materials such as heavy duty steel, which will prevent easy access into the safe. And, because they usually have a difficult to crack combination lock, they are very difficult to break into.

Do you want to know the most common way that a safecracker "cracks" a safe? It's by knowing what the combination to the safe is!

It's not that they can read minds or have an "inside person" giving them the combination. It's that a lot of people who buy a safe never change the combination from what was pre-set at the factory.

They may think that the combination is unique, or that it's randomly generated. Well, they're wrong.

What many safe buyers don't know is that the combinations that the safe factories set are industry standards. And, because a safecracker's "job" is to break into safes, you can bet your bottom dollar that the professional burglar knows the different combinations that safe manufacturers use.

So, as soon as you buy a combination safe reset the factory combination. And use a meaningless string of numbers. Using your birthday or street address is just too obvious. Then keep the combination in a secure place that's not anywhere near the safe.

For example, if you have the safe in your home you may want to keep the combination in your office. Or write it out an address book under a fake name. Just make it look like a phone number.

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