One Way To Avoid Snatchers

After hearing so many cases of robbery and snatch thieves that is happening around us each day, I myself cannot help feeling paranoid wherever I go.  Even though I clutch my pouch tightly around my hands and fingers, it does not help anything if one has the intention to snatch it away.

Those umpteen years ago, snatch thieves do not use tactics like knocking down the victims with their helmets or pushing them down before snatching the victims' belongings.  During my younger days, snatch thieves were just snatching the handbags off the shoulders or from the hands and that was it....

I had my own experience being a snatch thief victim in the late 70s, I was walking along Cowan Street (now Jalan Raja Ekram) with my friend.  It was around 6 something in the evening and I was holding a long wallet (crocodile skin type) and then all of a sudden, I felt the wallet just snatched off or taken away from my hand.... Just like that.... it was over in less than a two seconds.... didn't know how to scream... just "gawking" after the lone motorcyclist... and that was it..... thank God there was no pushing and knocking heads down those days.....

I was thinking... nowadays... how to avoid being a victim to these snatchers.... is there a way to discourage them?  How to prevent being a fallen victim?

An idea came to my mind... don't know whether it works or not....

Do you think this will help avoid snatchers if I wear shabbily instead of presentable?  Will it be a good idea if I just put on my old Tee, a worn out culottes/knee length shorts without make-up, without handbags and anything attractive? 

IN other words, does it help being a Plain Old Jane Me?  Being that, perhaps I will have a ease of mind walking shabbily around without feeling paranoid..... sigh...