{"id":438522,"date":"2026-08-20T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438522\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:24:33","slug":"big-fresno-fair-warns-vendors-about-phishing-impersonation-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438522\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Fresno Fair warns vendors about phishing &#038; impersonation scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Big Fresno Fair is warning the community to watch out for phishing and impersonation scams as fair season approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Fair officials say legitimate vendor communications will come from an @fresnofair.com email address, e.g. vendors@fresnofair.com.<\/p>\n<p>The fair will also never request sensitive information through social media comments or ask for payments through Zelle, Venmo or Cash App, unless specifically noted.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/mariposa-county-warns-of-scam-using-fake-1098-sr-form-to-freeze-property-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mariposa County warns of scam using fake 1098-SR form to freeze property taxes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before clicking links or sending money, officials recommend checking the sender\u2019s full email address and verifying any unexpected payment requests directly with the fair.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who receives a suspicious message can contact the Big Fresno Fair at info@fresnofair.com or 559-650-FAIR (3247).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Big Fresno Fair is warning the community to watch out for phishing and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-438522","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\/438522","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=438522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}