{"id":85434,"date":"2025-12-07T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85434\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:44:06","slug":"fresno-sheriff-warns-families-of-inmates-about-scam-calls-seeking-fraudulent-bail-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/85434\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Sheriff warns families of inmates about scam calls seeking fraudulent bail payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wants to warn the public about new scam calls targeting families of people behind bars this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s office has received several reports of someone calling relatives of incarcerated people claiming to work for the department.<\/p>\n<p>The scammer even tells the family they can get their loved ones released if they pay bail money directly to them.<\/p>\n<p>They can even spoof phone numbers, meaning the caller ID may look like it\u2019s coming from the sheriff\u2019s office when it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says if you&#8217;ve ever gotten this call, hang up immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wants to warn the public about new scam calls targeting families of people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-85434","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\/85434","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=85434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}