{"id":224640,"date":"2026-03-18T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224640\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:35:07","slug":"fresno-county-issues-warning-on-scam-calls-posing-as-social-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224640\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County issues warning on scam calls posing as Social Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno County wants to warn the public about scam callers that seem legitimate and provide tips to avoid them.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County said its Social Services Eligibility team may contact residents for scheduled appointments, to clarify information on an application, or for required Quality Control reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The county said staff may ask callers to confirm basic information to verify their identity before discussing a case.<\/p>\n<p>The county emphasized that staff will never ask for an EBT card PIN or request payment of any kind over the phone. <\/p>\n<p>Staff will never ask for payment through gift cards, cryptocurrency, wire transfers, or payment apps, and will not seek unsolicited personal financial information.<\/p>\n<p>A common scam involves callers claiming a person needs to \u201creset your PIN\u201d and then asking for an EBT card number and PIN. <\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/california-bill-would-widen-judges-power-to-deny-mental-health-diversion-in-violent-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California bill would widen judges\u2019 power to deny mental health diversion in violent cases<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents who are unsure whether a call is legitimate are urged not to share personal or financial information, to hang up, and to look up the official county number and call back to verify.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unsure of a call, you can report scam calls to the Federal Trade Commission at reportfraud.ftc.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno County wants to warn the public about scam callers that seem legitimate and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-224640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}