FBI warns of fake agent phone scam in southeastern Virginia

By The Associated Press
February 5, 2020 | 11:30 AM

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The FBI is warning of a phone scam in Virginia in which the caller claims to be an FBI agent.

The bureau said in a press release on Wednesday that targets of the scam are typically told that criminal charges have been brought against them. The fake FBI agent claims that he or she can help resolve the matter before asking for money or personal information.

The scammers often call from a spoofed number that shows up on caller ID as coming from the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office. The FBI is advising people to hang up immediately when these calls come in.

Virginia man charged with impersonating a police officer at a police station

By Ian Crawford
August 22, 2026 | 4:17 PM

Police in Prince William County, Virginia, have arrested a man who they say was trying to pass himself off as a cop. And he picked the one place his story was least likely to fly: at a police station. Officers said the man, later identified as Matthew Bailey Thompson, 45, of Manassas, showed up at the gate to a secure parking lot at their central police station on Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge around 7 p.m. Wednesday. He tried to get into the lot by telling them that he was an officer, too.

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