usurpation d'identité

Noun

 * 1) 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

 * Not to be confused with 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.