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You could take someone's identity details and use them to get a death certificate made. This is very close to "stealing" your identity — in that you yourself d
by derefr 4y ago
You could take someone's identity details and use them to get a death certificate made.
This is very close to "stealing" your identity — in that you yourself don't have the ability to use your identity any more in any useful way, because your identity is now (legally) dead.
Then again, they don't possess it after that point, either. So maybe it's more like "identity destruction" or "identity defacement."
- jamiek88 4y agoUndeading yourself in some societies ain’t trivial either. In others it’s nigh on impossible. India has/had a loophole that scammers use to declare someone dead and steal their property.
- hanche 4y agoSee: Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...
- vinay_ys 4y agoSource? With biometric identity system Aadhaar and 2FA auth for everything I find this hard to believe.
- gzer0 4y agoIf someone does that- creates a fake 'death certificate' in my name via publicly accessible information and it actually goes through, how do you even go about trying to fix that? is this even fixable?
- AstralStorm 4y agoHere in Poland they would need that person's ID number and a fake signature plus data of an accredited doctor. (Both of which is easiest done by compromising a doctor fully. They have access to ID database.)