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LOS ANGELES - A Studio City woman’s TikTok video is going viral after she says a man tried to lure her toward his car by faking an injury, and now others are coming forward with similar experiences across the San Fernando Valley.

Elizabeth, who asked that her last name not be used, said the encounter happened over the weekend as she was getting into her car on a residential street in Studio City.

"Another car pulled up behind mine—I thought nothing of it," she said in her TikTok video. "I get in the driver’s seat, turn on my car, look over, and a man is in the window."

Elizabeth said the man asked her to help move a box from the passenger seat of his car to the trunk, claiming he couldn’t lift it because of an arm injury.

She said she remembered reading a Facebook post abo

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