How Phone Snatchers Really Operate (Social Experiment) Phone snatching happens in seconds — but what most people never see is what happens before the attack. In this social experiment, we expose the real tactics phone snatchers use on busy streets and moving cars, and how patience, greed, and timing play a big role in their decisions. We set up a realistic phone bait using a moving car in a well-known phone snatching area. What happened next will surprise you. One man noticed the phone, turned b