A 41-year-old Salina woman is out $460 after falling victim to an e-mail scam.

Police Captain Mike Sweeney said the woman who advertises babysitting services on the internet, said she was contacted by e-mail by a woman named Emily Smith who was moving to Salina, and wanted to have the woman watch her 5-year-old son, and run errands for her.

The woman received a check in the amount of $2,775 in the mail on the account of a business in Atlanta, Georgia. She was instructed to open a bank account and deposit the check in the account.

The woman did so, and spent $460 from the account before being notified by the bank that the check was fraudulent.