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Originally Posted by DaleDe
There are lots of things that are fraud but the term Identify Theft is a particular kind of fraud. Fraud is theft by deception according to the law. If some one stole your identity what would you say happened to you? The identity hasn't really been stolen in the same sense that works you depend on for lively hood haven't been stolen. Maybe the fact that they emptied your bank account and destroyed your credit is merely a matter of infringing a bit on your copy right. Is that the way you would like to view it. Selling a work that someone else wrote is also fraud in that you didn't have permission but I think the idea of theft makes the severity of the crime more obvious.
Dale
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No. Fraud is fraud; it is not theft. You can commit fraud without stealing anything.
The problem with the term "identity theft" is that it is more metaphysical than practical. My identity cannot be stolen; I will always be me. Someone might commit fraud in claiming to be me, but since I am still me nothing has been stolen.