Being John Malkovich

The identity theft is a phenomenon very dangerous because it is when somebody steal your identity and do something (sometimes wrong) by persuading that it is you.

Of course, the most famous identity theft is the number of credit card on the web. When you pay with your card on Web, the thief gets back your coordinates banking then he can buy something for him, with your money.

But this method is not the only form of identity theft. People endowed in data processing can, for instance, send an e-mail by showing your e-mail in the compartment "sender". With this method, you can make great joke but bad stuff too.

However, there is something easier to do : on the chats, and forums, you can take the same (or very close) pseudo your. Someone can even have a blog or a website by persuading the Internet users that you are the author. That is what happened to Nelly Arcan, a book’s author. Someone created a MySpace account with her name. So, he wrote a blog where he lied on a lot of time on a lot of subject. The worst consequence was that a journalist interviewed the liar by mail, by believing that he wrote to the true Nelly Arcan.