her name was noelle alba, and went to her house. here is what happened next. >> oh, hi, are you ms. alba? you set up, you say, donations on behalf of one of the victims of the newtown tragedy. >> no. >> no? your name and your address on the e-mail? can i come in with a camera crew? no? >> alba eventually agreed to let her voice be recorded and denied she had anything to do with the e-mail asking for donations. here's more of what she told producer david fitzpatrick. >> this has your e-mail on it right there. this is about noah pozner's funeral. >> i never sent that. >> take a look at it, ma'am. it's got your e-mail all over it. look at the second page. gives your paypal account and a bank routing number you say you set up. >> that's not my paypal account. i mean, i have a paypal account like that. >> is that your e-mail? >> which one? >> says right there. >> yeah, that's one of my gmails. >> it's your gomail act? >> yeah, but i never set up funds. >> you should know the pozner family is very upset. >> but i never did anything to hurt them. >> who sent this? >> i never sent this e-ma

at first there was no answer and then a half hour later a surprise exchange with noelle alba when shee you miss alba. you set up donations on behalf of one of the victims on the newtown tragedy. >> no. >> no? >> you have your name and address on the e-mail. can i come in with my camera crew? >> no. >> she allowed us into record her voice already. she is in a crafting community and makes victorian picture frames. and blames in a e-mail on enemies within the crafting community. we're giving you this detail so you can decide what kind of e-mail was sent out here. despite evidence to the contrary she said she has nothing to do with it. this has your e-mail on it. this is about noah pozner's funeral. >> i never sent that. >> take a look at it, it has your e-mail all over it. it has your paypal account. bank routing number that you say you sent out. >> that is not my paypal account. >> but that's your -- is that your e-mail? . it says it right there. >> yeah, that is one of my gmails. but i never set up any funds for anybody. >> you should know that the family tells us they are upset by thi

today, noelle alba was arrested, charged with lying to federal agents who were investigating her for fraudulent fund-raising activity. here you see her leaving court in hartford, connecticut. she appeared before a u.s. magistrate. she was released on $50,000 bond. if she's convicted, alba could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. the fbi's criminal complaint refers to the reporting we did last week, saying quote, on or about december 19th, 2012, cnn's anderson cooper 360 program broadcast a story regarding charity scams and the sandy hook tragedy. alba was a subject of the program and allowed the cnn crew to record her audio voice in response to questions about her involvement with charities to help sandy hook victims. alba claimed that the paypal account listed in the request for donations was not hers, only that she had an account like that. alba claimed she never set up any funds for anybody. the journalist reported that alba claimed she immediately refunded all of the donations she received. she claimed other members in the scrapbooking community within which she

noelle alba? >> that is her name.her enemies are within the crafting community. >> that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. that she has enemies in the crafting community and they have set up a paypal account about hurricane sandy and this beautiful little boy. >> it is very troubling. this e-mail is a hoax. don't do it. but be aware. it is sad to say, there are 20 kids out there. 20 names of kids people will take advantage of this but they will. >> well, you know, we should get from as many of the families as want the information out, legitimate memorial funds and sites and we will start doing that tomorrow. noah's uncle is with me right now. you have set up a site correct? >> that is correct. they set up the domain name noahpozner.com. we challenged that with go daddy. >> someone after the tragedy bought the domain name? >> we had a lot of friends online and it was caught right away. woe ch we challenged it and we have the website now. i don't know what the person's intensions were. >> so that is now the

noelle alba? >> that is her name. her story is her enemies within the crafting community -- >> that's the most ridiculous things i've ever heard. a, that she has enemies in the crafting community and they have set up a paypal account about hurricane sandy and this beautiful little boy. it's just ridiculous. >> yeah it is very troubling. but, as i said now, we've exposed this woman, this e-mail is obviously a hoax. don't do it. but be aware. it's sad to say, anderson, there's 20 kids out there, 20 names of kids, people will take advantage of this in any way they can. they will. >> well, you know, we should get from as many of the families as want the information out, legitimate memorial funds and sites and put them on our website. we'll start to do that starting tomorrow. noah's uncle -- noah pozner's uncle is with me right now. you have set up a site, correct? >> that's correct. somebody had set up the domain name, noahpozner.com in his name right after the tragedy. we challenged that with godaddy. >> so someone after

the justice department says that noelle alba used her facebook account to trick people into giving hereople did donate to the paypal account that she actually set up. watch what happened when a cnn producer actually went to her home. >> this says, this has your e-mail on it right there. this is about noah pozner's funeral. >> i never sent that. >> take a look at it, ma'am. it's got your e-mail all over it. and take a look at the second page. it gives your paypal account. and a bank routing that you say you set up. >> that's not my paypal account. i mean, i have a paypal account like that. >> but is that your e-mail? >> which one? >> it says right there. >> yeah, that's one of my gmails. >> it is your gmail account? >> yeah, my personal account. but i never set up any funds for anyone. >> you should know that the pozner family tells us that they're very upset by all this. >> but i never did anything to hurt them. >> who sent this e-mail out, ma'am? >> i never sent this e-mail out. >> uh-huh. >> i don't have a reason to send any e-mail out. >> noel alba is out of jail on bail today. >>>