KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Several women have been attacked and robbed in parking lots in Central Florida and police have some tips to help women stay safe.

Kissimmee police said purse snatchers look for purses sitting in shopping carts and make their move.

Police spokeswoman Stacie Miller said she is afraid a distracted woman talking on her phone on her way out to her car will be the next victim.

"Have that (purse strap) on and hold onto it, and when talking on the phone, look up," Miller said.

Miller spent several hours at a Kissimmee Wal-Mart with Local 6 reporter Erik von Ancken Wednesday night looking for bad habits and teaching women how to fix them and protect themselves.

"You shouldn't leave (your purse) here in the basket. Have it on you, because they'll take it," Miller said.

Miller said she sees too many women shopping the wrong way, making them easy targets for purse snatchers.

"You want to look like you're too much to mess with for a crook. If your head is down, rummaging through your purse, trying to find your keys, making yourself a target," Miller said.

Miller suggested that women leave their purses in their car, locked in the trunk or under a seat, and just take a wallet into the store with them.

Miller said she is sickened by surveillance footage of an 88-year-old woman falling to the ground when a woman grabbed her purse and droveoff from the same Wal-Mart parking lot on June 16.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Cynthia and Lovetta Teague in connection with that purse snatching, and after evaluating surveillance tapes from other similar incidents, police believe the sisters may be involved in up to a dozen purse snatchings in Central Florida in recent weeks.

Ocoee police said they have identified Cynthia Teague in a June 14 parking lot purse snatching.

Police also believe the sisters may have been involved in two attacks earlier this week. An 85-year-old woman was attacked in a parking lot in Leesburg on Tuesday and a 93-year-old woman was attacked just hours before that in Mt. Dora.

Anyone with more information about the attacks is asked to call Crimeline at 800-423-TIPS.