WASHINGTON - A woman in Southeast D.C. has a warning for her neighbors -- watch out for fake police knocking at the door.

The woman, who preferred to conceal her identity, said she came to D.C.'s 7th police district with a list of items stolen from her home earlier this month. "They took his rifle, my cell phone, all his jewelry money out my purse," she said.

"He says, I have a warrant to search this house and I asked what and he says open the door I have a warrant to search this house," she recalled.

She said seeing the three masked men dressed like the SWAT team, with the word police on their clothes, she opened the door. "Immediately they set me on the sofa running through my house like searching and just ransacked the whole house," she said.

The woman said the men had weapons and they held her two hours, even stealing her hospitalized husband's rifle.

The victim said the frightening ordeal ended when her son and his girlfriend came knocking on her back door. She opened it but indicated with her eyes something was wrong. They ran to a neighbor and called police. Meanwhile, the fake cops ran out the front door.

The woman said she's been terrified since the incident. "I've been a basket case I am so nervous, can't eat, can't sleep," she said.

While cleaning up her house, the victim said she found a bag the thieves left behind, which she photographed with her cell phone. It contained duct tape and two sets of handcuffs. The police now have the evidence.