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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6859218" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>Assuming you're SINless (you are unless you take a negative quality saying you're not), a good fake SIN is necessary to operate in society. That SIN should -not- be used in connection with anything illegal. You buy groceries with it. You drive a car that you NEVER drive on runs. You have a commlink that broadcasts it ONLY when you're not on a run, or in seedy areas, or around seedy people (like us). </p><p></p><p>Think of the good fake SIN as your secret identity.</p><p></p><p>Then, you need a cheap fake SIN to keep on hand broadcasting on a commlink when you ARE on a run. Because going anywhere without a SIN broadcast is like painting a giant CRIMINAL HERE sign on yourself. This SIN will quickly become associated with your many illegal activities though, and will become too 'hot' to keep using. That is why you want this 'working' SIN to be cheap. You will go through them like candy. Your working SIN is what you use to buy grenades and guns and ammo though. And mods for your battlecars. Anything that's questionable for a normal citizen to do or buy, you use this SIN.</p><p></p><p>Example, Death Otter is a SINner. She has a name she was born with, registered in the databases of UCAS. She could use that SIN to do normal stuff if she wants to. In this case, she chooses not to. Instead, she uses a rating 3 fake SIN that lists her name as 'Deezy Klatta.' This SIN shows her (fake) job, her (real) address, and various other identifying information...which she carefully vets to decide if she wants it to be real (like medical information that could let an EMT choose the right lifesaving drug to use) or fake (like how much money she makes at her fake job, which is actually just money she deposits from her shadowrunning on a semi-regular basis to cover living costs).</p><p></p><p>She also has a rating 1 fake SIN which shows her being named 'Beth Cotter.' It also lists information about her, ALL of which is fake. If anyone ever caught her and ran a check on her based on her biometrics, it will almost certainly show the rating 1 SIN as being fake. It would have a fair chance of revealing her rating 3 SIN as being fake, which would SUCK because that's where she has most of her non-illegal possessions, including her lifestyle, registered. It could very easily also reveal her ACTUAL SIN, in which case it would become a Criminal SIN, which is a whole other ball of stinky rancid beans.</p><p></p><p>Note that she's flying loose and easy with regards to licenses as well. Fake licenses are a good idea, because they reduce the odds someone will notice your gun and realize it's not licensed and then decide to do a detailed background search of your SIN because that's damned suspicious. She could very easily lose her Rating 1 SIN that way, even if they don't have her biometrics to work from. Her Rating 3 SIN should be fairly insulated, since her illegal gear isn't associated with it at all, unless they DO have her biometrics to work from.</p><p></p><p>Death Otter takes this chance partly because she thinks she can hide or spoof her illegal stuff if she needs to. Being a technomancer helps in this regard, since she's not using an illegal device to hack...no scanner will ever detect her cyberdeck. She's also planning on staying mostly out of sight when possible and running silent in the Matrix to avoid notice. And of course she's wildly overconfident. And kind of broke, so she can't afford fake licenses anyway. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 6859218, member: 4936"] Assuming you're SINless (you are unless you take a negative quality saying you're not), a good fake SIN is necessary to operate in society. That SIN should -not- be used in connection with anything illegal. You buy groceries with it. You drive a car that you NEVER drive on runs. You have a commlink that broadcasts it ONLY when you're not on a run, or in seedy areas, or around seedy people (like us). Think of the good fake SIN as your secret identity. Then, you need a cheap fake SIN to keep on hand broadcasting on a commlink when you ARE on a run. Because going anywhere without a SIN broadcast is like painting a giant CRIMINAL HERE sign on yourself. This SIN will quickly become associated with your many illegal activities though, and will become too 'hot' to keep using. That is why you want this 'working' SIN to be cheap. You will go through them like candy. Your working SIN is what you use to buy grenades and guns and ammo though. And mods for your battlecars. Anything that's questionable for a normal citizen to do or buy, you use this SIN. Example, Death Otter is a SINner. She has a name she was born with, registered in the databases of UCAS. She could use that SIN to do normal stuff if she wants to. In this case, she chooses not to. Instead, she uses a rating 3 fake SIN that lists her name as 'Deezy Klatta.' This SIN shows her (fake) job, her (real) address, and various other identifying information...which she carefully vets to decide if she wants it to be real (like medical information that could let an EMT choose the right lifesaving drug to use) or fake (like how much money she makes at her fake job, which is actually just money she deposits from her shadowrunning on a semi-regular basis to cover living costs). She also has a rating 1 fake SIN which shows her being named 'Beth Cotter.' It also lists information about her, ALL of which is fake. If anyone ever caught her and ran a check on her based on her biometrics, it will almost certainly show the rating 1 SIN as being fake. It would have a fair chance of revealing her rating 3 SIN as being fake, which would SUCK because that's where she has most of her non-illegal possessions, including her lifestyle, registered. It could very easily also reveal her ACTUAL SIN, in which case it would become a Criminal SIN, which is a whole other ball of stinky rancid beans. Note that she's flying loose and easy with regards to licenses as well. Fake licenses are a good idea, because they reduce the odds someone will notice your gun and realize it's not licensed and then decide to do a detailed background search of your SIN because that's damned suspicious. She could very easily lose her Rating 1 SIN that way, even if they don't have her biometrics to work from. Her Rating 3 SIN should be fairly insulated, since her illegal gear isn't associated with it at all, unless they DO have her biometrics to work from. Death Otter takes this chance partly because she thinks she can hide or spoof her illegal stuff if she needs to. Being a technomancer helps in this regard, since she's not using an illegal device to hack...no scanner will ever detect her cyberdeck. She's also planning on staying mostly out of sight when possible and running silent in the Matrix to avoid notice. And of course she's wildly overconfident. And kind of broke, so she can't afford fake licenses anyway. :) [/QUOTE]
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