To prevent confusion or make it easier to return if there is, many people prepare a little paper tag that is attached to the bag and contains the owner’s name, age, address, and phone number before traveling overseas.
The drawback of this approach is that it may expose the owner’s private information and put them through needless stress.
A foreign media report claims that criminals can read the information on checked baggage, covertly place forbidden items next to your suitcase, and write the owner’s name on it.
If they are successful, they can go and retrieve the luggage later because they know the owner’s home address and personal details.
For example, Brazilian police arrested a group of drug smugglers who copied passenger information and pasted it on their own suitcases. In addition to other items in the suitcases, they also put drugs and transported them by air.
Another accident was in 2010, a 50-year-old woman from Hong Kong named Lam Tran Dinh went to Malaysia to visit relatives. She assisted an elderly woman with her luggage while she was going through customs, but she was stopped, searched, and found to have 1.8 kg of drugs in the bag she had been asked to carry. Lam Tran Dinh received a d3ath sentence because narcotics trafficking and transportation involving 15 grams or more is punishable by d3ath in Malaysia.
