Victims have been targeted in Dublin, usually while intoxicated, by thieves seeking mobiles and PIN numbers
“In some cases victims are more or less befriended in a pub or on the street, maybe by somebody pretending to be concerned for them and offering to help to get them home,” said one source.
“And once they have the PIN, the next step is to get the phone somehow, often taking it while [the victims] are distracted and without the victim realising the phone is gone or that they’ve handed it over because they’re intoxicated,” said the source. In at least one case a victim handed his phone to a driver, in a car he believed was a taxi, so he could look at the destination on Google Maps.
Sources stressed that vehicles purporting to be taxis were used in only a small number of cases and insisted it was not “a taxi-based scam” as people have been targeted in multiple locations and situations.
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