Identity creation

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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)
In order to place 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.

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