Tourist ‘alarmed’ after setting up secret camera and catching hotel worker red-handed

Arturo Brunello was a hotel guest whilst on vacation when he caught housekeeping staff going through his personal belongings with the footage being posted on TikTok

A man was stunned when he went on holiday and set up a secret camera in his hotel room – as he caught staff rifling through his bags. Arturo Brunello was trying to relax when he went away to Mexico, but soon he was left on edge by the shocking discovery.

He claims that hotel workers who were supposed to be cleaning his room took the opportunity to search through his bags, drink a beer that was in the fridge, and look in the drawers. Arturo used the iSentry app, which turns a computer’s webcam into a motion-sensing security system, and recorded the footage, and after sharing it on TikTok the clip soon went viral with over 3.2 million views, as the Daily Star reports.

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A voiceover playing over the footage said: “Here, you can see the housekeeping staff help himself to a beer from our fridge”.

Brunello questioned the employee as he said: “Why are you going through our drawers?”

The staff member continued to rummage around the room as he opened the room’s safe and was filmed opening a backpack as Brunello sternly urged his viewers to: “Be careful when you’re travelling”.

He added: “This was the first time I set up a camera, that is alarming to me”.

After reporting the incident to management at the hotel, the employee was immediately fired as Brunello praised iSentry as a “10/10” app after it sent him an email when the app detected motion.

Vadim Zaliva is the CEO of Codeminders, which developed iSentry and said: “In particular, we’ve heard from some small businesses using it in their storage room sometimes combined with the office to prevent potential theft by employees.”

Brunello’s video seemed to have a positive effect as many viewers shared his anxiousness about the level of security in hotels as well as his travel advice.

One viewer said: “This is why I barely take anything out of my case and I always keep my lock on it and travel with the keys always.”

“I always bring the minimum, no jewellery and whatever is expensive is in my purse with me, but a camera is genius,” another viewer said.

And a third commented: “I’m surprised he didn’t just steal the computer.”

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