Thieves Stole My Identity

She is 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.  I guess that word cannot work in this present century and beyond. 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 a snake that swallows a human being, then stays for days in one place, 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.