{"id":49886,"date":"2024-09-17T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=49886"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:00:45","slug":"invoice-scam-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/09\/17\/invoice-scam-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Invoice Scam Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently the Community and Economic Development Department became aware of a new scam after several of our customers received fake invoices that appeared to be from the Planning &amp; Zoning Board asking for payment of additional fees for pending rezoning applications (see sample below):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NbRRGkZACmIKVh2dCHrup6m3rU-7ogV2RJd4ylSm4SgCQuj3KVZkx1EUGfEZFX8YUF49G_bC8nPGrGReOrCga1DGpjrcc2uRrrXXJiwHUnrMj5db4qL65KhySBaGZxMWPP99TAL48LkMF0ROQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/6cd2daac701\/539b1ad3-9501-4fa5-bfeb-37835795cf05.png\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>E-mails and invoices like the example above are not legitimate. These scams are designed to convince you to share personal financial information.<\/strong>\u00a0Neither the City of Lakeland Community and Economic Development Department nor the Planning and Zoning Board will e-mail invoices for payment of application fees or reviews.\u00a0All legitimate payment notifications are sent through iMS, the City\u2019s online application portal, as City of Lakeland(<a href=\"mailto:DONOTREPLY@lakelandgov.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DONOTREPLY@lakelandgov.net<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0If you are ever unsure about payment requests, call Community and Economic Development at (863) 834-6011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Community and Economic Development Department became aware of a new scam after several of our customers received fake invoices that appeared to be from the Planning &amp; Zoning&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":49887,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-62.png","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[9758],"class_list":["post-49886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-invoice-scam-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49888,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49886\/revisions\/49888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}