{"id":406670,"date":"2026-07-21T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406670\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:39:13","slug":"would-you-fall-for-it-fake-booking-websites-target-summer-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406670\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you fall for it? Fake booking websites target summer travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Summer travel season is well underway, and scammers are targeting consumers looking to book their next vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Fake travel websites and lookalike booking companies are a popular way for scammers to steal your personal information and money.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Tucker with the Better Business Bureau joined ARC Bakersfield to share the warning signs to look out for and the safest way to book a trip.<\/p>\n<p>More information about avoiding scams can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbb.org\/scamtracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bbb.org\/scamtracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Summer travel season is well underway, and scammers are targeting consumers looking to book&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-406670","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\/406670","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=406670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}