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THE GIOVANNI & PILEGGI hairdresser didn't want to offend her Center City walk-in client, Morgan Greenhouse, who had come in for a hair-extension consultation.

" 'Please don't take this question as insulting, [but] do you have any idea the costs of these extensions?' " the hairdresser recalls asking her.

Her high-fashion client cut to the chase, telling the hairdresser: " 'Don't worry about the money. Money is not an issue.' " The $2,200 quote seemed reasonable, she told the stylist.

On Nov. 29, Morgan came in for her all-day appointment, dressed in True Religion jeans, with violet-colored eye contacts. Her doting boyfriend came in to chat with her and even brought her a falafel sandwich. By the end of the day, Morgan, "who was really social, really sweet," was really happy with her flowing auburn brown locks, said the hairdresser, who spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity.

Once she left the salon, on Walnut Street near 19th, Morgan had disappeared, leaving a $2,200 bill on a bogus credit card and two bad checks, and stiffing the stylist out of her measly 10 percent tip, about $250. The vanishing lady, it turns out, was not "Morgan Greenhouse" but Jocelyn Kirsch, a Drexel University student who, along with boyfriend Edward Kyle Anderton, was arrested Friday in an alleged identity-theft scam.

Yesterday, Philadelphia - including the neighboring West Philly campuses of Penn, where Anderton graduated in 2005, and Drexel - was abuzz over the scammers who local cops have dubbed a modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde."

On the social-networking Web site Facebook, popular with college students, someone even started a group about Kirsch, on which someone posted the words: "SHE GOIN' TO JAAAAAAAAIL!!!!"

That result might be OK with the hairdresser. "I pampered someone that completely took advantage of me," she said, adding that she lost a day and a half of pay.

But the cash, the credit and all the fun associated with having lots of it apparently were central to the lives of Kirsch, 22, and her boyfriend and alleged accomplice Anderton, who turns 25 tomorrow.

The two, according to police, "lived the life" on the backs of hardworking people with established credit by traveling the world, living in a $3,000-a-month Center City condo, ordering Godiva chocolates and the latest Apple laptop over the Internet.