From the Queens D.A.'s office comes this tale of identity theft and Internet fraud:

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that an office temp has pled guilty to identity theft, grand larceny and multiple related offenses for stealing the personal identity information of scores of University of North Carolina public television pledge drive donors, using the information to purchase, among other things, 18 travel packages from Travelocity -- an Internet travel service provider -- and using the purchases valued at over $14,800 to make frequent US Air flights between New York and North Carolina and Virginia.

The defendant also admitted that she used the stolen information to fraudulently purchase a Father’s Day basket for her father.

When you care enough to steal the very best...