Woodbridge Police Issue Warning About Latest Phone Scam

A Woodbridge resident was conned out of money in a phone scam, involving a caller who pretended to be a lawyer who worked with police.

Police said they want to warn residents about the latest telephone con, in which the caller claimed that the woman’s husband had been on his cell phone when he ran a red light and got into an accident.

According to the alert from Woodbridge police:

The victim recently got a call from a woman who claimed to be a lawyer and said she worked with nearby police department.

The caller said the woman’s husband was involved a fatal crash after he drove through a red traffic light while he was on his cell phone.

The con artist then told the woman she could prevent her husband from going to the county jail if she wired a large sum of money to someone in the Dominican Republic, via Western Union.

The victim made two money transfers, because she said, the caller knew a lot about her and her family. She also feared her husband was in trouble because he wasn’t answering his cell phone.

Police say they will never instruct anyone to wire money to them via Western Union.

Anyone who receives this sort of call should immediately hang up, then call the police department named by the caller, police said.

Police are also residents to warn their family members and friends about this scam.