'A Con Artist's Gold Rush'

Beverly Steward remembers the classified job listing as almost too good to be true: Pay $89 for a special "credential" and get a guaranteed job as a cleaner or maintenance worker. Steward, a single mother of two desperate for work, completed an online application in January and paid the fee. But no job followed. "That's when I knew I'd been taken," Steward told a crowd at the Federal Trade Commission, where officials today announced a crackdown on recession-related scams. "I know $89... Full Story