The FBI monitored a website for hiring a hitman; a New Orleans woman fell for it.

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The website rentahitman.com might look legit. Among other things, it boasts a faux HIPPA notice for the "Hitman Information Privacy & Protection Act of 1964."

But the site is linked directly to the FBI's internet crime complaint center, authorities say, and a New Orleans woman who fell for it met up with an undercover agent at Waffle House and made a down payment to kill her romantic rival. She pleaded guilty Thursday to transmitting threats via interstate commerce and faces a long as five years in prison.

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Court records say Zandra Ellis, now 34, submitted a "service request" to the website last summer, targeting a woman who had threatened her and her unborn child. Under the pseudonym Jasmine Brown, Ellis wrote, "I would like her dead since she is trying to kill me."

An undercover agent using the name "Ace" texted Ellis to confirm her interest in a hit man. When Ellis replied yes, the agent told her it would cost $1,000, according to court records.

They met July 6, 2022, at a Waffle House on Canal Street, where Ellis said that she and her intended target had children by the same man. Ellis provided a $100 down payment and, upon leaving the restaurant, was arrested.

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