{"id":450059,"date":"2026-09-01T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:04:50","slug":"would-you-fall-for-it-kern-county-sheriffs-office-shares-tips-to-avoid-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450059\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you fall for it? Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office shares tips to avoid scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Scams can happen to anyone and knowing the signs can help prevent them from going too far. <\/p>\n<p>Scammers often start their schemes with a simple phone call, text or email.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is making sure the community is ready to act if they encounter a scammer.<\/p>\n<p>Public Information Officer Lori Meza and Crime Prevention Coordinator Michelle Flores joined ARC Bakersfield to break down the warning signs of a scam, how to avoid them and what to do if you are targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Scams can happen to anyone and knowing the signs can help prevent them from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-450059","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\/450059","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=450059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}