{"id":312893,"date":"2026-05-13T01:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312893\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:32:48","slug":"kern-county-warns-of-phishing-emails-targeting-accela-permit-applicants-seeking-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312893\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County warns of phishing emails targeting Accela permit applicants seeking payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The County of Kern is warning residents about reports of phishing emails targeting customers who submitted permit applications through the <a href=\"https:\/\/aca-prod.accela.com\/kernco\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Accela Citizen Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The county said the fraudulent emails may request payment or a wire transfer. Known subject lines include:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cInvoice for Application Review and Approval Fee\u2014 Immediate Action Required&#8221;\u201cOutstanding Processing Fee Required Prior to Final Approval&#8221;\u201cApplication Review &amp; Approval Fee&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Residents who receive one of the emails are urged not to send any payment, click on links, download attachments, respond, or provide personal information. <\/p>\n<p>The county also advises deleting the email, blocking the sender and updating the Accela Citizen Portal password.<\/p>\n<p>The county said residents should verify any payment requests by contacting the county department that processed the permit application.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Kern County said it takes account security seriously and is actively investigating the source of the phishing emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The County of Kern is warning residents about reports of phishing emails targeting customers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-312893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312893","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=312893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}