A man knocked on the door of a house in Ribblesdale Avenue, Accrington, before walking in and taking a mobile phone from the sofa.
A girl at the house looked through an upstairs window and saw a man aged between 19-20 with short dark hair and wearing a dark tracksuit top at the door.
Police said by the time she got downstairs a Nokia N73 had been stolen.
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