on the beach or on the promenade, occasionally free bracelets are offered to visitors as a gift - these bracelets may be used to signal who is a good target for an assault, based on what belongings the tourist might be carrying.

accept them, but quickly and discreetly get rid of the bracelets a few steps from where you received them, cross the street, and walk back in the opposite direction as you were going when you received the bracelets - usually an accomplice will be waiting for visitors with bracelets not far from where they were given out, and ready to rob the targets.