Fake TV site is part of Internet scam

Cory Bergman over at LostRemote points to Action 25 News, a cable TV site for Macon, Ga., that NBC stations all over the country are reporting is a fake set up by Internet scammers selling DVD "training" programs. Apparently the website the website was created to lend credibility by having a fake TV consumer reporter claim you can make $84,000 a year by working at home.

If you think it looks real and believable, it's not just the garish primary colors, smiling faces of the hometown news team, and irritating scrolling marquee ticker. The design was stolen from a real TV website. Looking at the HTML code I noticed metrics and ad tags that quickly led me to WAXN64 in Charlotte, a UHF station affiliated with Cox Television and Internet Broadcasting (IBSys).