identity theft

(noun)

The deliberate assumption of another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime.

Related Terms

Examples of identity theft in the following topics:

  • Forced Entry

    • Cybercrimes are those committed via computer networks for such purposes as fraud, identity theft, and the hacking of sensitive information.
    • Crimes that use computer networks or devices to advance other ends include cyberstalking, fraud and identity theft, information warfare, and phishing scams.
    • Other forms of fraud may be facilitated using computer systems, including bank fraud, identity theft, extortion, and theft of classified information.
    • The victim of identity theft (here meaning the person whose identity has been assumed by the identity thief) can suffer adverse consequences if he or she is held accountable for the perpetrator's actions.
    • Identity fraud is often but not necessarily the consequence of identity theft.

  • Inventory decisions

    • Inventory that exceeds what is needed to satisfy customer demand imposes unnecessary costs such as storage, deterioration, obsolescence, theft, and money tied up in inventory that cannot be used for other purposes.

  • Credit Cards

    • In most cases, cards are even more secure than cash, because they discourage theft by the merchant's employees and reduce the amount of cash on the premises.

  • A short history of accounting and double entry bookkeeping

    • One supposes that that they wanted to be sure that any changes were legitimate; that losses were not due to theft, and that if 100 cattle were purchased that the herd increased by 100.

  • Differential

    • Differential pricing exists when sales of identical goods or services are transacted at different prices from the same provider.
    • Price differentiation, or price discrimination, exists when sales of identical goods or services are transacted at different prices from the same provider.
    • Price differentiation can also be seen where the requirement that goods be identical is relaxed.

  • Managing differences in organizations

    • Organizations usually take one of two paths in managing diversity: (1) they encourage people of diverse backgrounds to blend in for the benefit of fairness and equality; or (2) they set them apart in jobs that relate specifically to their backgrounds, assigning them, for example, to areas that require them to interface with clients or customers of the same identity group.
    • In those kinds of cases, companies are operating on the assumption that the main virtue identity groups have to offer is knowledge of their own people.
    • Diversity goes beyond increasing the number of different identity-group affiliations on the payroll.
    • Diversity should be understood as the "varied perspectives approaches to work that members of different identity groups bring" (Thomas & Ely, 1996).

  • Avoiding Passive Voice

    • Be careful to avoid using the passive voice to hide an actor's identity when it is unethical to do so, such as when trying to avoid accepting responsibility for your employer's actions.

  • Vending Machines

    • It contains a pile of identical newspapers.

  • Balance of Trade

    • The trade balance is identical to the difference between a country's output and its domestic demand (the difference between what goods a country produces and how many goods it buys from abroad; this does not include money re-spent on foreign stock, nor does it factor in the concept of importing goods to produce for the domestic market).

  • Job Design

    • Task identity — Being part of a team is motivating, but so too is having ownership of a facet of the process.