First, it was fake bail bonds companies calling people saying a relative had been arrested, and they'd need to wire large chunks of money in order to get the defendant out of jail.

That later morphed into scammers posing as law enforcement officers, calling to tell whoever happened to pick up the phone that they had a warrant out for their arrest.  The fix, they'd say, was to simply wire transfer thousands of dollars and the problem would disappear.

But the Beverly Hills Police Department says the latest con artist ploy involves a woman with some sort of foreign accent who …