AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
identity theft
Identity Thief Wanted Bigger Breasts
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Dec. 11) -- A Florida woman who admitted she stole someone's identity to pay for larger breast implants has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. After pleading guilty in August, 30-year-old Shatarka Nuby was sentenced on Monday for purchasing another woman's personal information, acquiring credit cards under the assumed name, and spending nearly $20,000 of the victim's money on new furniture, liposuction under her arms and a new set of breast implants, according to Sun-Sentinel.com. She reportedly said she needed new breast implants because her old implants weren't up to spec ...
Love Scammers Use Dead Soldiers to Snare Victims
By Michael Brick - AOL News
(Oct. 6) -- Tired of masquerading as the obscure nephew of some deposed banana republic dictator? What if I told you that you could make a good income, starting today, all from the comfort of your own neighborhood cafe in Lagos, Nigeria -- or wherever? Using the quick, easy, not-patented method of impersonating fallen American soldiers, you too can exploit the trust of lonely women. All you need is an Internet connection! Yes, it has come to this: Twenty-one years after Elwood Edwards recorded the announcement "You've got mail" and nearly nine years into one of the country's most prolonged ...
Christine O'Donnell LinkedIn Mystery Deepens With Claims of Identity Theft
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 29) -- A victim of identity theft? Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell released a statement Wednesday denying that she had started an account at the social networking site LinkedIn, where misleading information about her educational background was posted. "There have been reports that I have released false information on a LinkedIn profile under my name," O'Donnell's statement read. "This is categorically untrue. I never established a LinkedIn profile, or authorized anyone to do so on my behalf." Reached by Surge Desk on Wednesday, a spokesman for LinkedIn confirmed ...
Puerto Rican Officials Scrap Millions of Birth Certificates
By Mara Gay - AOL News(April 21) -- In a dramatic bid to end fraud, identity theft and illegal immigration, Puerto Rico is voiding all birth certificates issued before July 1, 2010 -- forcing more than 5 million people to apply for new ones. The move will "protect the identity of all Puerto Ricans born on the island, and at the same time help the federal government with national security issues," Luis Balzac, spokesman for the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, said in a phone interview with AOL News. According to the U.S. departments of State and Homeland Security, Puerto Rican birth certificates ...
U.K.-Israeli Tensions Flare Over Assassination of Hamas Official
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritish and Israeli relations have been strained this week over the duplication of six British passports for use in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai. The controversy has once again embroiled the British government in charges that it has been slow to respond to a major international event involving its citizens. ...
Chaos Theory - The Scourge of Identity Theft
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics Daily...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics