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Here's the Illinois state statute: 720 ILCS 5/16-30) Sec. 16-30. Identity theft; aggravated identity theft. (a) A person commits identity theft when he or she knowingly: (1) uses any personal identifying information or personal identification document of another person to fraudulently obtain credit, money, goods, services, or other property; I've known dozens of people who went to jail for this, but only when they ob…
Thanks for providing that. The section you include seems particular to using another person's existing identity, rather than generating / crafting a new one from thin air that isn't you or anyone else, which is what I think the ultimate parent was referring to: > Nowadays, you could autogenerate both, and it's way more expensive to check the [id] than to generate one This section seems the most relevant (?): (5) uses…
To your second point, yes, you would have to be committing a felony, which you wouldn't necessarily be. I got someone off a burglary charge that way once, since a burglary is defined as entering a premise for the purpose of committing a felony or a theft and the defendant only entered the premises for the purpose of slapping his girlfriend, which was a misdemeanor o_O
You do have to be careful though, violating the terms of service of a web site is at least a misdemeanor in a number of states (including Illinois), and is a felony for repeated violations.