Specimen · catalogued monster

The Borrowed Face Doppelganger

Wears your identity better than you do

A patient look-alike that slips through unlocked doors and puts on your credentials like a favourite coat. It strolls about the estate with total confidence, signing off on things nobody remembers approving.

Symptoms

• Logins from places nobody has ever visited
• Accounts nobody can explain still hold live access
• Access rights never reviewed since the last reorganisation
• Customers receiving messages the company never sent
• Audit trail shows two of you working simultaneously

Overheard in the corridor

• “Who actually owns that system, anyway?”
• “It was on the list of things to tidy up”
• “Surely someone else switched off the old accounts”
• “Why is my own badge being refused today?”