While I was on my way to the store, a car honked at me and waved me over. There were like five people inside including two young women, who were the only ones visible to me, which I imagine wasn’t accidental. The driver immediately started his spiel about not having Internet access and needing it urgently and all that usual nonsense.
I immediately refused of course, and I barely even had the time to finish the sentence when the driver bolted out of the car and kept repeating in a more and more angry manner “ give me internet, give me internet”. Clearly he was trying to intimidate me. The other dudes who were behind the girls before were now yelling at me from inside and making gestures.
I pretty much just ignored them and went on my way.
On my way from the store, I met them again. They were out of the car and they once again tried to intimidate me to give them Internet access. I pretty much just laughed and told then to find someone else and that I know what they’re trying to do. They didn’t follow me, but they were clearly pissed.
Now, it’s obvious that this was a scam or at least an attempt to steal my phone. I‘m leaning more towards scam, since they never asked to see my phone, just for internet access.
My question is, what’s their end goal? What can they get from using my mobile internet? My main theory is that they would’ve tried doing something illegal, like scamming someone and it would’ve been linked to my phone number/IP address.
Or were they just trying to make me pull out my phone to steal it?
