On foot, bike, motorcycle, or car. Targets are handbags, earrings, necklaces, shopping bags, watches, cameras dangling on their strap - anything that can be yanked off. Back Home Boy. Yes, unfortunately, crooks go on vacation. They meet somebody from back home.
Defenses go down and so does the scam.
The latter is particularly nasty. Don't take anyone else's gifts through customs for them. Don't watch a stranger's bag while they go to the bathroom. Don't ask someone to watch your bags. This age old scam works like this.