“He started asking me more personal questions about myself and ended up giving me his phone number. David (a pseudonym) was down-to-earth, handsome, and charming. He walked away and then circled back and pulled down his mask. “He had a mask on, so I didn’t really pay much attention,” she told me. Jenny (not her real name), 35, said that a man approached her and said hi while she was walking on the beach with her 9-year-old daughter last September.