This week on The Perfect Scamp.

They call it flexing whenever they steal something, they want to buy something flashy,

like a diamond encrusted Rolex, or go out to clubs and you know, buy champagne service and just pour out the champagne on their

watches very obnoxious videos. He wrote a Python script that basically went into

social media and found everybody who was like listed as having a job at AT&T in their Twitter or in their LinkedIn or whatever.

He would then go and send an email out to them saying, I understand work at AT&T I have a task for you.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Your smartphone is the password to your whole digital life.

Maybe your whole real life do. Think about it.

Almost everything you have to log into today and heck

almost every sporting event or concert you walk into requires that you pull out your

smartphone. That's why today's story is so important. It involves a technique that

lets criminals steal your smartphone even though it never leaves your pocket.

Think about what kinds of things someone could do to you

if they had control of your smartphone.

For starters, they could try to steal money from your bank accounts.

In a moment, you're going to meet someone who was

robbed this way and had 24 million dollars stolen from him in an instant. But

first you're going to meet an investigator who spent years chasing down various crime gangs of criminals who essentially invented this kind of theft and the crazy things they did like pouring expensive champagne onto Rolex watches.

And while some of his stories are wild and about people living the lifestyles of the rich and famous,

well it's important everyone

understand that these criminals, they might come after your smartphone too. So we'll

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