usurpation d'identité
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
usurpation d’identité f (plural usurpations d’identité)
- identity theft (the fraudulent appropriation and use of a living individual's name or other personal information to gain illegitimate access to their finances or other resources)
Related terms[edit]
- Not to be confused with vol d’identité which refers to cases where the victim is deceased, namely:
- the act of assuming the identity of deceased person (whether to gain access to their resources, to avoid being detected by a pursuer, e.g. a legal authority, or other purpose);
- the arrangement of circumstances by the culprit (who wishes, for whatever reason, to be believed dead) such that a corpse is thought to be the culprit's own.