Identity creation

Identity creation is the process of creating a new personal identity or alias for an existing person.

It is commonly employed:

• As part of witness protection program (such as the United States Federal Witness Protection Program)
• To protect people having risk of being murdered for other reasons, such as honour killing.
• In order to place law enforcement personnel or secret agents in deep cover.
• In order to commit fraud.

It differs from identity theft in that the new identity is not one previously existing.