{"id":21312,"date":"2026-02-28T03:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21312\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:17:21","slug":"new-bern-warns-of-people-posing-as-city-employees-in-phishing-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21312\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern warns of people posing as city employees in phishing emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Scammers have been sending phishing emails to New Bern contractors and businesses, posing as the city to get money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The City of New Bern says scammers find out who\u2019s applying for new construction projects through public information, then send them emails. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The phishers use the city\u2019s logo and employees\u2019 names to create a fake invoice and solicit fees through wire transfers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The emails come from the domain usa.com. If you come across one, the city says you should delete it immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city reminds the public that it does not accept wire transfers for any payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Scammers have been sending phishing emails to New Bern contractors and businesses, posing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,1122,229,14042,14038,14039,117,107,14041,14040,3067,14037,14045,14043,14044,105],"class_list":["post-21312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-building","tag-construction","tag-contractor","tag-email","tag-emails","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-permit","tag-phishing","tag-projects","tag-scam","tag-transfers","tag-usa-com","tag-wire","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}