Horrifying moment masked thieves smash influencer’s car window & steal phone in split-second traffic jam attack

THIS is the horrifying moment masked thieves smash an influencer’s car window and steal her phone in a shocking split-second robbery. TikToker Tabata Lenk was sat in traffic in São Paulo in Brazil when two men pulled up on a motorbike beside her. Brazilian TikToker Tabata Lenk was sat in traffic when two men on a motorbike approached Credit: talenkphotos and flaviobrotas/ Instagram In a split second, one of the men smashed her window and lunged inside the car Credit: talenkphotos and flaviobrotas/ Instagram Shocking footage caught on Tabata’s dashcam shows one of the men jump from the back of the bike, run to the car and smash the side window. He lunges into the vehicle and snatches the phone from a holder just inches from the petrified young woman. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! The pair then flee on the bike, while Tabata is left in shock and bursts into tears. After the violent theft, cash was withdrawn from her bank account. The thief snatched the phone before Tabata could react Credit: talenkphotos and flaviobrotas/ Instagram The woman was left in shock after the violent street robbery Credit: talenkphotos and flaviobrotas/ Instagram The victim has since filed a police report and blocked the account. Tabata posted footage of the robbery on Avenida Tancredo Neves on social media in the hope that someone recognises the perpetrators. She wrote: “I honestly didn’t even want to post it, I can’t even bring myself to watch the video. It makes me sick to my stomach – but please help me share this and find this scum.” The content creator expressed disbelief at how the two thieves accessed her bank account. Most read in The Sun She said: “They didn’t have my password, didn’t have my facial recognition data (which every bank requires for access), and certainly didn’t have my bank transfer PIN… I have no idea how they managed it!” Around 980,000 phones were stolen from São Paulo – Brazil‘s largest city – in 2022. That equates to one phone stolen every minute, according to the 2025 annual report by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety think-tank. This dropped slightly to some 850,000 phone snatches in 2024, but fear of armed robberies and discreet pocketing of mobile phones remains high. As the thieves fled, Tabata broke down in tears Credit: talenkphotos and flaviobrotas/ Instagram Tabata posted footage of the robbery on social media Credit: talenkphotos/ Instagram And it’s not just phones thieves are after, with violent car robberies also blighting the country. Last year Brazilian fitness icon turned pornstar Gracyanne Barbosa was violently carjacked at gunpoint by a gang who stole her luxury SUV in Rio de Janeiro. Shocking footage showed the 42-year-old sitting on the pavement visibly shaken moments after being dragged out of her £100,000 Land Rover Defender by her hair. Gracyanne and her older sister, Barbara Jacobina, were returning from a samba rehearsal when three armed men targeted them as they stopped to buy medicine. Barbosa, who was sitting in the backseat, said a gunman pointed a weapon at her head, pulled her hair, and threw her to the ground, injuring her knee. Her sister was fortunately unharmed. Nearby motorcycle couriers reportedly came to the sisters’ aid before they left the scene in a ride-hailing car to report the crime. The robbery came a year after Gracyanne made headlines for joining Brazilian adult platform FanFever following her split from singer Belo after nearly 16 years of marriage. Comment now