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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Mobile banking: alarm as fraudsters take over handsets and raid
 accounts
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:45:44 +0100
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Jörg Lorenz wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Snatch the unlocked phone from the user's hands.  Bonus points if they
>> can trick the owner into unlocking it, and then snatching it
> 
> Seriously?
That's a warning doing the rounds over here, approach someone, convince 
them they're cute, ask them to add you to their contacts, when they get 
their phone out and unlock it, steal it.

Newspapers with stories of individuals stealing a dozens of phones per 
hour, in city centres or at festivals.