It used to be lipstick on the collar, a stray blond hair, and perfume...now it's electronic trails...why don't these people just get lives??
Sky News, September 1
Cheating husbands are now more likely to be caught out by a flirty text message than the tell-tale smudge of lipstick on a collar, a divorce lawyer claims.
And women are better than men at following their partner's electronic trail of adultery, said Vanessa Lloyd Platt, of Lloyd Platt and Co.
The firm conducted a survey of 100 couples found that men used passwords on their Blackberries and laptops that were easy for their suspecting partner to break.
The survey found 25% of men used the password "God" or "Sex" and around 15% used 1966, England's World Cup winning year.
Another 22% used their mum's name and 2% even used "password."
Ms Lloyd Platt said: "The biggest mistake men make is leaving text messages from their lovers undeleted and forgetting that emails arrive on Blackberries, not just their work computers.
"One Spurs fan who was having an affair with his secretary used the password 'Berbatov' because he kept going on about his favourite player.
But she said that women used passwords that were harder for men to break including the characters of their favourite TV shows like Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives.
The survey found that women also checked online bank accounts, identifying presents bought for mistresses and not them.
At least 4% of men who appeared on Facebook looking for sex claimed it was "only a joke".
"Around three in every five women who come to see me because they believe their husbands are cheating now come armed with evidence," said Ms Lloyd Platt.
"The electronic clues are making it much easier to discover people who are unfaithful. It used to be only rich wives who could afford private detectives, but now anyone can turn sleuth."
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