Hotel guest busts staffer in ‘alarming’ act

A holiday-maker has released footage online of the moment he busted a hotel worker rummaging through his stuff.

A holiday-maker has revealed he filmed a hotel worker going through his possessions after installing a security camera on his laptop.

The guest captured footage of the housekeeping staffer appearing to go through his stuff and look in his safe after setting up the device on his webcam, The Sun reports.

The TikTok user, who goes by the handle ‘arturbo86’, issued a warning to his followers after releasing footage of the incident yesterday.

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The hotel worker appearing to rummage through the guest’s possessions. Picture: TikTok/arturbo86

He also was seen looking in the hotel safe. Picture: TikTok/arturbo86

The video showed the worker as he appeared to look through the guests’ possessions, including his bags and his chest of drawers.

Adding insult to injury, he was also seen helping himself to a beer from the minibar.

The user claims he captured the footage after setting up the iSentry app on his laptop.

The app reportedly detects motion and sends an email to the user when it starts recording.

“I set it to upload to Dropbox, so I could check in while I was away from the room,” he said.

“This was the first time I set up a camera and I caught this. This is alarming to me.”

The video showed the worker as he rifled through the guests’ possessions. Picture: TikTok/arturbo86

The guest said he went on to share the footage with the hotel, where management “handled the situation very well”.

He did not reveal whether the worker faced repercussions.

“Just be careful out there and use technology to your advantage,” he said, issuing a final warning to users.

“I’m in no way affiliated with iSentry, but this worked for me. 10/10.”

The latest incident comes just months after a Queensland pensioner caught his best mate stealing from him when he installed a hidden CCTV camera inside his wardrobe.

His son suggested they install the camera, which caught the man four times rifling through his belongings, opening the safe and helping himself to cash.

The money that went missing included $100 put into a birthday card for his daughter, which was kept in the safe, and $400 left in a suit coat pocket.

The accused later admitted three counts of entering a premises with intent, and one count of burglary.

He was given a nine-month jail sentence, wholly suspended for a year, and was forced to pay $200 in compensation.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission