DavidHouston Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 I came across an interesting term in the paper today. "แต่ละคนต้องรวบรวมข้อมูลให้มากขึ้น ทำความจริงให้ปรากฏ เพราะมีการสวมรอยสร้างความเข้าใจผิดต่อคนเสื้อแดง . . ." The word "สวมรอย" from Lexitron means: "to take one's place wrongfully; take another's place by assuming his name; take other's step under false pretenses" The sentence above could, therefore mean, "Each of us needs to gather as many facts as possible [and] let the truth come out because there are those who would operate under false pretenses and tell lies about us [the red shirts]" The word "สวมรอย" brought to mind the notion of "identity theft" and I wondered whether it was indeed used in this modern context. Google showed a discussion of "identity theft" at http://kcs.co.th/kcspage/term/library/identity.htm : "Identity Theft ก็คืออาชญากรประเภทหนึ่ง ที่สวมรอยเป็นคุณ แล้วแอบเอาข้อมูลส่วนตัวของคุณไปใช้ ราวกับว่าเป็นตัวคุณเอง" "Identity Theft refers to a type of criminal activity whereby someone takes your identity under false premises and covertly uses your personal information as if he were you." This website provides a good explanation of identity theft but not a nice, spiffy, concise term for this crime. Can anyone suggest such a term or let us know what Thais are using? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BecTero1 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Perhaps the following will work: ขโมย ใอ-ดี ka-moy I.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aanon Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 To see what translations are out there, I suggest doing a google search for the following: +"identity theft" +ที่ This approach was suggested by Rikker, I think, as a way of finding English words mentioned on Thai language pages. It works well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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