STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. -- A senior citizen was nearly taken for $3,000 during a would-be phone scam before authorities stepped in.
Stafford County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Courtman was called to a home on Smithfield Way in south Stafford on Monday after a woman received a phone call from what appeared to be her female friend stating she was in jail. The woman told the victim she was jailed in Fairfax County after running a red traffic light and colliding with at least one other car, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
An apparent organized affair, the scammers were detailed as the woman told the victim she was leaving a doctor’s appointment in Washington, D.C. at the time of the crash and then collided with two other women after running the red light. She then told the victim a public defender appointed by the court would contact her and provide her with information that would allow her friend to leave jail.
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