A man invited two women he met outside of a Fort Lauderdale bar to his home. He woke up to find his $25,000 Rolex gone.

A man who met two women outside of a South Florida bar and invited the strangers to his home is the latest victim of an often-seen scam: Women luring men with the intent of stealing their expensive watches.

The man reported his high-end watch stolen on Dec. 5. He told detectives he met the two women outside of the Rooftop bar on Las Olas Boulevard about 3 a.m. on Dec. 4.

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The three exchanged numbers and met up an hour later, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said, when he took the women to his home in the 1400 block of South Ocean Boulevard in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea to have drinks.

Broward Sheriff's detectives are searching for the two women seen on surveillance video, believed to have stolen a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea man's $25,000 Rolex watch on Dec. 4, 2022.

He fell asleep and, when he woke up, found his $25,000 two-tone Submariner Blueface Rolex and his credit card gone, the Sheriff’s Office said.

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The Sheriff’s Office released surveillance footage of the two women, both in their mid-20s with black hair. One woman has a tattoo of a scorpion on her left thigh and wore a white dress. The other wore a yellow dress.

Dozens of other men have had similar experiences after a night out in South Florida over the years. And oftentimes, the suspects are elusive, leading police to rely on surveillance video to identify them.

In July, a woman left with a man after a night out on East Las Olas Boulevard, and the two were seen on surveillance video walking into the victim’s apartment and the unidentified woman leaving alone two hours later. The man lost a total of $52,500 in valuables, including two designer watches, according to Fort Lauderdale Police.

Nearly three years ago, a woman who identified herself as “Carolina” met a man at LIV in Miami Beach and left with him. He later discovered his nearly $40,000 Rolex was gone. In the span of a few months in 2016, three South Florida police departments released surveillance footage of suspects in similar incidents.

One woman who was arrested on a larceny charge in Palm Beach County in 2020, Olivia Stepp, had been arrested twice in about a year for stealing luxury watches. In one incident, she asked a man outside of an adult nightclub near West Palm Beach if she could try on his Rolex. She then said she had to go to the bathroom but escaped from the club.

Stepp was sentenced to prison in March 2022 and released in November, Department of Corrections records show.

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In 2016, Subhanna Beyah, who was a sex-trafficking victim, was on probation after stealing one man’s Rolex and paying $20,000 in restitution to avoid a prison sentence. But while on probation, she did it again.

Beyah left a club in Miami with a man, offered him a beer and he lost consciousness. When he woke up, he had slurred speech and convulsions and his Rolex gone.

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Department of Corrections records show Beyah was sentenced to prison in January on several grand theft and fraud charges and will be released in January 2023.

Claudinne Caro, a spokesperson for the Broward Sheriff’s Office, said detectives don’t have information currently that the victim was drugged.

“It just comes down to always being mindful of your situational awareness, especially when you’re interacting with strangers,” Caro said.

The Sheriff’s Office asks anyone with information about the women’s identities to call Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Detective Glen Genovese at 954-640-4245, submit a tip through the SaferWatch App, contact Broward Crime Stoppers anonymously at 954-493-8477, online at browardcrimestoppers.org or by dialing **TIPS (8477) from any cellphone in the United States.

Information from the Sun Sentinel archives was used in this report.