The Internet has launched some strange things, but Penny swears she's legit.

She's just asking for help in leaving her husband. But her new Web site has drawn so much hate mail, she's asked us not to reveal her true identity.

Penny is in a jam, and she needs your help.

Penny claims she's trapped in a loveless marriage. But without a career she has no way to earn her own living. Penny's Web site says your donations could break the ties that bind.

"Hi, my name is Penny," it says on her Web site. "I started this site to hopefully inspire all good people who come here to hopefully send donations. I'm just asking people who want to help me out to send a buck or two."

She told KOMO 4 News, "I'm just a housewife that's been staying at home that wants to go to nursing school so that my husband and I can divorce. I just don't think that's outrageous at all."

But some people think Penny's new Web site is nothing more than high-tech begging.

And then there's this: her husband doesn't know about this. He's out of the country.

Penny's husband knows they're getting a divorce, he just doesn't know about the Web site -- a Web site that has drawn the ire of many women.

"Thousands have done it before you without begging for money," one e-mail read. "And by the way, maybe your husband will pay some to get rid of you when he finds out what you're doing behind his back."

But Penny says she doesn't feel like she's begging for money. "I am offering something in return," she says. "A look at my life while I go through this. It's kind of like a soap opera."

On her site, Penny posts a daily diary, her expenses, and her own efforts to save money.

She's also taken on odd jobs -- like sewing children's skating outfits.

"I figure I'll probably get $35 for each one," she says.

In just one month Penny's readers have donated $392.

When asked how she convinces people she's just not scamming them out of their money, she responded, "I've been asked that a lot. All I can say is if I was trying to scam money out of people I would have come up with a better story than the one I came up with."

Penny says she's also received positive reaction from women who say she's doing the right thing going to school so she can support her two young daughters after her divorce.

As for penny's husband, he's due home in a week from a tour of duty in the military. She'll tell him about the Web site then.