A police spokesperson said Tuesday that detectives have interviewed victim Ashpia Natasha about the caught-on-dash cam Oct. 16 crash, in which another driver reversed into her front bumper on the busy Queens highway just before several passengers spilled out and tried to claim they were hurt.

“The investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Criminal Enterprise Investigation Unit’s Fraudulent Collision Investigation Squad,” a department spokesperson said in a brief statement.

Unfortunately, cases like Natasha’s are becoming more and more common as brazen crooks search for scams to run on unsuspecting victims — even old-school schemes like cutting someone off, slamming on the brakes and then squeezing them for insurance money afterward.

“It’s an ongoing trend, and the fraudsters are getting away with it,” Mark Friedlander, spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit trade organization, told The Post on Tuesday.

“They’re able to cash in on these schemes, and until they’re caught and put behind bars, the schemes are not going to slow down.”

Friedlander said staged accidents like the one on the Belt Parkway cost insurers about $20 billion every year — and raise the rates for everyone else.

They’re most common in heavily congested areas like California, which saw 5,366 staged crashes in 2023, and New York, which came in second last year with 1,729 such “accidents,” he said.

Those numbers are rising, especially in the New York metro area — the Empire State saw a 14% increase from 2022 to 2023, Friedlander said, while New Jersey saw a 58% increase, from 158 in 2022 to 250 in 2023.

More often than not, two cars will be involved — one in front of the victim and one in back — and they’ll sandwich their unsuspecting mark between them, Friedlander said.

Then, the conspiracy rings will rope in medical professionals who are willing to punch up the severity of the “injuries,” while lawyers on the take will sue the victimized driver on their behalf.

“It’s not just the people causing the fraudulent accidents,” Friedlander said. “It’s a much broader issue than just a few people in a vehicle causing this. It’s really amazing.”

And they’re leaving innocent victims in the lurch — like Natasha, whose incident was a “perfect example of an attempted insurance fraud scheme playing out in real time,” according to a rep for the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

The Belt Parkway seems to attract these crooks — another eerily similar incident happened on the same road recently, although it’s not clear when, according to a video posted on Reddit two days ago.

And they’re leaving innocent victims in the lurch — like Natasha, whose incident was a “perfect example of an attempted insurance fraud scheme playing out in real time,” according to a rep for the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

In that clip, a different silver Honda races up next to someone driving in the right lane and cuts them off — and predictably slams on the brakes.

The victim crashed into the scammers, who then pile out of the car, walking slowly and holding their necks as they amble around.

It’s not clear how the incident ended up, or if police believe the two crashes were committed by the same crew.

The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

But there are some ways for motorists to protect themselves from becoming the next victim, including being a defensive driver (sometimes impossible in New York) and installing a dashcam, such as the one Natasha used to catch her would-be grifters.

She’d been driving on the three-lane parkway on Wednesday morning when the crew — driving a silver Honda Accord — suddenly switched lanes, cut her off and slammed on the brakes, according to a video she later posted to TikTok.

She hit her brakes too, narrowly avoiding a crash.