How Mary's Money Blog Scammed One Man Out of Thousands

Reports on CNN, advertisements on Yahoo boasting easy ways to make money from home, a job posting links on Google, professional e-mails sent directly to his inbox and phone interviews were what reassured Terry*, a 61-year-old writer based in the Midwest, that Mary's Money Blog was a legitimate employer. Unfortunately, like so many others, it took Terry $4,000 and more than six months to learn the hard way that not all jobs on the Internet are what they seem.

"If I hadn't had my good job outsourced, I wouldn't have been looking for something, but I was in need of something else to help support myself and my family, and there were so many things that made this job look legitimate I figured it was worth a try."