FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Department wants to warn the community of a scam email.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff\u2019s Office was informed by multiple third-party vendors that they received fraudulent emails impersonating County employees in several departments.<\/p>\n
The scam emails contained publicly available County contract information, included attachments, and directed recipients to submit a payment through a Square payment link.<\/p>\n
The messages originated from a similar-looking domain, @fresnocounty-ca.us, rather than official County email addresses.<\/p>\n
The fresnocounty-ca.us domain is not a legitimate County email domain.<\/p>\n
The list of correct domains includes<\/p>\n
@fresnocountyca.gov@fresnosheriff.org@fresnolibrary.org @fcera.gov<\/p>\n
No evidence has been found of compromised County email or payment accounts, systems, or data.<\/p>\n
The known activity appears limited to external vendors receiving impersonation and payment-fraud messages.<\/p>\n
Most County departments do not send payment links or solicit money in emails to residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Department wants to warn the community of a scam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-483549","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\/483549","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=483549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}