The Identity Thief

She’s an impostor.

It means she is not who she claims to be. She is pretending to be Jane Doe when she is actually, Jane Dole. Technology and these digital toys that rule our lives come with new terminology and illness.

To my tech-zero mind, identity thief is the new word for impostor, which is like milk, it’s past its due date.  I guess impostor cannot work in this present era, this year ‘22 and that future, too frightening to comprehend.

Impostors were limited. They zoomed in a particular situation and place. They wore certain clothes and talked in accents and body language  designed to deceive victims. Most impostors did it for personal reasons like enrichment, marriage or status, not for world domination.

An impostor has a face.  For example, Jane Dole pretending to the Jane Doe. The identity thief  is faceless. The intention is not to impress in order to get something from the victim. The aim is to take over the victim like that snake in Africa that swallows a human being, then stays in one place for a long time, too full to move.

The  identity thief has no manners obviously, no greeting or ‘may I come in?’ It is pure break and enter. Victims of identity theft are left without money. That is traumatic, but not as much as you, yourself, your identity being used in shared criminal or brainwashing activity.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.