Don’t click, don’t call.

D.C. police say those four words can keep you from becoming a victim of what’s known as a gold bar scam.

“We’ve all had our computer crash, and you get that blue screen up there, and there was a number that flashed up: ‘Call this number to remedy the situation.’ She called it. She ended up speaking to some people who took her down this long scam,” said Assistant Chief Ramey Kyle with the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police said Amruth Vaka, 27, and Saloni Shaikh, 28, both of California, were arrested after they flew to D.C. posing as couriers helping the victim protect her money from the bad guys who had hacked her computer.

They told her to convert it to gold coins or gold bars and they’d come and pick it up and put it somewhere safe.

But they were the act

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