With more than 200,000 cases recorded in\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>France\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0each year, you are more likely to be the victim of identity theft than burglary or car theft!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Penal Code defines\u00a0<\/span>identity\u00a0<\/span><\/a>theft\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0as the act of taking the name of a third party in circumstances which have determined or could have determined against the latter criminal proceedings.\u00a0This must be the name of an existing third party.\u00a0If the name of a deceased person has been taken, then we no longer speak of identity theft but of identity theft.\u00a0One can usurp the name of a person, but also all the elements of the identity of this one.<\/span><\/p>\n Identity theft will only be punished if it has served as a support for the commission of an offence: theft, defamation, fraud, scam… Moreover, even if the usurpation has been discovered in time, the usurper will be incriminated since it will have exposed the usurped third party to criminal risk.<\/span><\/p>\n The most common technique is flight.\u00a0This technique allows usurpers to obtain a great deal of personal information: name, address, bank details, etc. Some usurpers even go so far as to search the trash cans to obtain personal information.\u00a0One of the most widespread techniques on the Internet is \u201cfishing\u201d (phishing): the usurper sends e-mails to people pretending to be a representative of a company in order to obtain personal data.\u00a0Finally, there remains the good old technique of the telephone survey.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat is identity theft?<\/span><\/h2>\n
When is it punishable?<\/span><\/h2>\n
The techniques of the usurpers<\/span><\/h2>\n
How to avoid it?<\/span><\/h2>\n