If someone wants to steal someone else's property in public, they may use the following tricks to cover up their tracks: - **Use other people or the environment to distract** - **Create a collision**: Deliberately collide with the victim to distract his attention and take the opportunity to steal. For example, on a crowded subway, pretend to accidentally bump into the victim, and use your hands or body to cover the victim's pockets or bags to steal the property. - **Use environmental noise**: Commit a crime when the surrounding environment is noisy, such as in a vegetable market, a construction site, or other places where there are a lot of people or machines roaring, to cover up the sounds that may be made when stealing. - **Divert attention** - **Ask for directions**: Ask the victim for directions or other questions to attract his attention, let the victim relax his vigilance, and then commit theft. For example, on the street, the suspect walks up to the victim and politely asks "Where is the nearest bank?" While the victim is answering, his accomplice quietly takes the victim's mobile phone that has been placed aside. - **Pretend to remind**: Pretend to be enthusiastic to remind the victim to pay attention to something, such as "Your bag zipper is open", and when the victim subconsciously checks, commit theft. - **With the help of tools** - **Use of covering objects**: Use newspapers, magazines, clothes and other items as cover to steal while blocking other people's sight. For example, on a bus, the suspect used a newspaper to cover his hands and reached into the pocket of the passenger next to him to steal property. - **With the help of theft tools**: Use special tools, such as long tweezers, poles with hooks, etc., to steal the victim's property from a distance, try not to have direct contact with the victim, and reduce the risk of being discovered. - **Teamwork and cooperation** - **Division of labor and cooperation**: When a gang commits a crime, there is a clear division of labor among members. Some people are responsible for attracting the victim's attention, such as deliberately entangled or creating chaos; some people are responsible for looking for opportunities to steal; and some people are responsible for keeping watch, observing the surrounding environment, and notifying their accomplices in time if there is any abnormal situation. - **Feint to the east and attack the west**: One person deliberately attracts the victim's attention in front, such as deliberately dropping items for the victim to help pick up, and the other person takes the opportunity to steal property from the other side of the victim. - **Disguise identity** - **Impersonate staff**: Impersonate shopping guides, security guards, couriers, etc. to gain the victim's trust, approach and commit theft. For example, impersonate shopping mall staff, take the customer's bag under the pretext of helping to check the goods, and then find an opportunity to steal the valuables in the bag. - **Disguise vulnerable groups**: Pretend to be a disabled person, pregnant woman or other vulnerable groups, take advantage of people's sympathy to relax their vigilance, and commit theft. For example, pretend to be a blind person, hold a guide stick, grope in the crowd to approach the victim, and commit theft.