Are you sure it's really you ?

There is another danger on Internet : Identity theft.
This is a phenomenon which appearead on Internet above all on stores websites. It’s also called « hackers ».

It means that some internet users take an identity of antoher person. In general, they take the name, the number account, keywords…
This is illegal.

In 2006, a woman was sentenced because she used the internet account of one of her friend, on Meetic, the Internet meeting website. She was accused to be « violent » that’s why, they had to pay for this « crime », about 10 000 euros. In fact, shed used her identity, but she broadcated a wrong image of her collegue on Internet, saying that she was a
« bitch ».

I talked about stores websites. Some people have the possibility to use our identity and bank account when we buy something on Internet. But, these kind of websites have changed their process. As a matter of fact, when we buy something on Internet with our credit card, we have to give the proof that we are the persons who did purchases. In fact, we have to send a letter with our credit car number, a photocopy of our identity card. This is used to struggle against frauds.