A headscarf-wearing woman scolded a journalist for asking her if she is running a daycare out of her Seattle home amid a national spotlight on Somali-owned fraud schemes. 

Daycare centers are under intense scrutiny across the country after a massive Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota was unveiled. 

After independent journalist Nick Shirley shared footage of an apparently empty Minneapolis daycare with a misspelled name sign, the federal government froze all child care payments to the state on Tuesday.

The FBI is also investigating the fraud, and Director Kash Patel said he believes Minnesota is 'just the tip of a very large iceberg.'

In Washington, local independent journalists have turned their attention to Somali-run daycares in their state.

On Tuesday, an unidentified headscarf-wearing woman, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, was seen wagging her finger at journalist Jonathan Choe outside of her Seattle home.

'Is this an actual daycare? Are you aware of the Somali daycare fraud going on? We're just trying to check out if this is a real daycare,' Choe, who works for the non-profit Discovery Institute, asked.

'I am working. You don't have to come to my home,' the woman said. 

A headscarf-wearing woman scolded a journalist for asking her if she is running a daycare out her Seattle home

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown (pictured) posted on social media warning journalists not to show up to home-based daycare providers and 'harass' them

'Where are all the children? If you have a daycare, where are all the children?' the journalist asked.

'I don't have to... I don't have to tell you what I have or what I don't have,' she said. 

Notably, the Seattle Public School system is on winter break from December 22 to January 2, and it is unclear if children would be attending daycare when the interaction occurred. 

When Choe asked if she could prove the daycare was legitimate, she replied, 'I am not proving anything for you,' while wagging her finger. 

Later that day, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown posted on social media that his office had received an influx of complaints from Somali community members about being harassed.

'My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,' Brown wrote.