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False personation

Here are entered works on falsely assuming the identity of another person to gain benefit or cause harm to the other person. Works on pretending to be a different person, gender, etc., and works on imitating characteristics, mannerisms, etc. are entered under Impersonation.

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• Fraud
• Impersonation

• False personation -- Drama
• False personation -- England
• False personation -- Fiction
• False personation -- United States
• Identity theft

• Impersonation (Crime)

• Tom Cobb (with commentary), by W. S. Gilbert (multimedia at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lake of Fire (New York: C. Kendall, c1933), by Lionel Houser, illust. by Steele Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Your Money's Worth: A Study in the Waste of the Consumer's Dollar (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Stuart Chase and F. J. Schlink (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Foul Play (based on an undated Grolier Society edition, with additional illustrations), by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• The Forger (c1927), by Edgar Wallace (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope, illust. by John Everett Millais
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Orley Farm (new edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Anthony Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of Dorothy Stanfield, Based on a Great Insurance Swindle, and a Woman! (New York: Book Supply Co., 1946), by Oscar Micheaux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do About It (Ithaca, NY and London: ILR Press, c2011), by Terry L. Leap (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Diversity Visa Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 15, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity Visa Program and its Susceptibility to Fraud and Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cases on the Law of Bankruptcy, Including the Law of Fraudulent Conveyances (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1915), ed. by Evans Holbrook and Ralph W. Aigler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• The Browder Case: A Summary of Facts; A Brief for Justice and Fair Play in America (1941), by Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder (New York) (PDF at flvc.org)

• Soviet Active Measures: Focus on Forgeries (1983), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mouse in the Mountain (originally published 1943), by Norbert Davis (HTML with commentary at manybooks.net)

• Counterfeit Deterrent Features for the Next-Generation Currency Design (1993), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism (2009), by Gregory F. Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J. Cunningham, Jeremiah Goulka, Greg Ridgeway, and Anny Wong (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2011), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• Romanticism, Forgery and the Credit Crunch (2012), ed. by Ian Haywood (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry, by James Macpherson, contrib. by John J. Dunn (Gutenberg text)
• Le Taensa a-t-il Eté Forgé de Toutes Pièces? Réponse à M. D.G. Brinton (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Lucien Adam (multiple formats at Google)
• Le Taensa n'a pas Été Forgé de Toutes Pièces: Lettre de M. Friedrich Müller à Lucien Adam (in French and German; Paris: Maisonneuve Frères et C. Leclerc, 1885), by Friedrich Müller (multiple formats at Google)
• An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and Other Bards Who Flourished in the Same Age (Montrose, Scotland: Printed by J. Watt, 1816), by Hugh M'Callum and John M'Callum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Poems of Ossian, To Which Are Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse and Dissertation on the Aera and Poems of Ossian (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Poetical Works of Ossian (text from the Crosby and Nichols edition of 1863), by James Macpherson, contrib. by Hugh Blair (HTML with commentary at Ex-Classics)
• The Taensa Grammar and Dictionary: A Deception Exposed (reprinted from the American Antiquarian, March 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temora: An Epic Poem, by James Macpherson (HTML with commentary at Auburn)
• Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa, Avec Textes Traduits et Commentés (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1882), by J. Parisot, Lucien Adam, and A. Dejouy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930), by Derk Bodde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Cookery, With Reference to Matter Attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare: A Letter Addressed to "The Athenaeum", With a Postscript Containing Some Remarks Upon the Refusal of That Journal to Print It (London: J.R. Smith, 1855), by Andrew Edmund Brae
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Rowley Poems, by Thomas Chatterton, ed. by Maurice Evan Hare (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)
• An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments, Published Dec. 24, MDCCXCV, and Attributed to Shakspeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton: Illustrated By Fac-Similes of The Genuine Hand-writing of That Nobleman, and of Her Majesty; A New Fac-simile of The Hand-Writing of Shakspeare, Never Before Exhibited; and Other Authentic Documents: In a Letter Addressed to The Right Hon. James, Earl of Charlemont (London: Printed by H. Baldwin for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796), by Edmond Malone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Vortigern: An Historical Play, With an Original Preface (London: J. Thomas, 1832), by W. H. Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Authentic Account of the Shaksperian Manuscripts, by W. H. Ireland (HTML at jacklynch.net)

• The Ethics of Criticism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Tobin Siebers (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)

• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)

• Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry (Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2002), by Robert Tillman (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.