How can one create an new identity separate from their own? Ive heard of methods such as paper-tripping and ghosting, but are these legal? How else can you get a new identity that's legal and you can use as you would your own?
Five answers:
S D
2013-02-10 15:51:41 UTC
Depends on what you want to use it for. If it's to commit fraud, you can't. If it's just for fun, you can use any name you want to.
But you can't have two sets of legal ID documents. That's criminal.
So if you want to be someone else to people you meet, and make up a whole identity, go for it. But if you do so with an intent to mislead them in relationships (romance) or to get money from them, then you are a criminal.
Frostfaxe D.
2013-02-10 15:58:44 UTC
It is legal to change your name, and the police can sometimes help you create a new identity if you have problems with an abusive stalker or something similar, and there is a danger to your personal safety.
However, these are things that must be done legally, and it is highly difficult to create a new identity if your purpose is to shrink the law and scam people. Such identity changes are registered after all.
Even Furries need love
2013-02-10 15:48:03 UTC
You cannot legally create a new identity separate from your own. Psedonyms have very little legal value and even then, only when they are clearly attached to a legal single entity.
I suppose there might be ways to create a new identity legally (I don't know for sure) but you'd have to give up your own first (or at the same time).
gobel
2017-03-01 17:47:38 UTC
a man or woman and their id are intertwined and overlap in such distinctive techniques, it is impossible to realize this by making use of any just about significant degree. particularly it is one substantial question of semantics concerning the definition of id. The dictionary definition it is reported right it is maximum like "the priority of being oneself or itself, and not yet another". you may consciously create issues concerning the priority of being your self, however the priority of being your self envelops each thing you're by making use of definition. i could particularly say you're precise, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it nonetheless all comes right down to semantics greater or much less.
anonymous
2013-02-10 15:44:31 UTC
thought about it myself
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