Re: Mobile banking: alarm as fraudsters take over handsets and raid accounts

Jörg Lorenz wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
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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.