Social Media Posts Lead to Home Robbery: Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com

If you tweet or text your every move, beware. We'll show you a new website that's taking your information and making it easy for criminals to rob you. Coming up, when you tweet or text, you're probably thinking you're just communicating with your friends, or you should really know better by now that's not true. We're gonna show you how that information could end up on a website called Please Rob Me. Now, truly a matter of Too much information. How your friendly texts and tweets can be used to break into your home. Do you tweet and text friends your every move? Well, you could be providing too much information to the wrong people. Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kaufman reports.

It seems harmless. A tweet tells friends you're shopping or grabbing a coffee. But many of those messages are getting reposted here, a new website called please rob me dot com. Here's how it works. Please rob me dot com uses a location sharing website to post where you are when you're not at home. For instance, this guy's at the fish market in San Mateo. Well, this guy's at a casino in Vegas. By the time this man arrived at the Heartland Brewery in Manhattan, we were there to meet him.

I didn't know it was going to go anything beyond just my Twitter and Facebook networks. I really didn't know who was paying attention. So this is a shock.

The folks behind the site don't really want you to get robbed. Their explanation?

We need to show people what the potential reach of those messages can be.

It really made people realize in a way that they didn't before that there's a lot of personal information about them and that they might in fact be vulnerable if they're telling people about their whereabouts. Every minute of the day.

This man says he won't stop tweeting.

I understand the risks associated with it, but I think the benefits to meet people, I think, will outweigh those risks.

Hattie Kaufman, CBS News, Los Angeles.

Joining us now from Newton, Massachusetts, is Robert Siciliano, an internet security expert. Good morning, sir.

Good morning to you.

How surprised were you? You take this guy, he had no idea. We're just sitting there looking at the general tweets and twitters of people around the country. We meet this guy at the bar even before he gets there. He had no idea.

Yeah, not surprising at all. The public is in the dark in regards to social media and what risks they put themselves in.

If there is a site out there that they say— they're trying to do it to raise awareness— how possible is it for somebody who has ill will in terms of their intentions to go and find out that you're out of your house to go and do whatever they want in that house.

Well, to rob means larceny by threats or violence. And it is just a matter of time until some whack job takes this site up on its offer.

There's a— very interesting, because we should point out that there have been no reports or burglaries because of this website thus far. They say they're trying to raise awareness. But isn't this just illustrative of how careful we all need to be, either using social media or even passwords or anything else?

I am all about exposing the flaws in the system. If government's doing something, if corporations are doing something, but when you're shining a big bright light on somebody's home and telling the world that they're not home, obviously, ethically, I don't think that's right. Right. In general, the public needs to be aware that They are putting themselves at risk, and if you're telling the world that you're out, that you're not going to be home for a couple hours, that you're in Acapulco with your toes buried in the sand, you're having a margarita, then you are certainly putting your home and your family at risk.

I think that really is true, isn't it? Robert, thank you very much for your time and expertise this morning. Thank you. I do appreciate it.