Impostor

An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often to try to gain social advantages, but just as often for the purpose of damaging somebody's reputation.

Types of impostors

 * Impersonator
 * An impersonator is someone who imitates another player, usually with using his nickname and sometimes also with imitating or coping the behavior or actions of the another. Well known players and contributors to community become often a target of impostors.


 * Fake clan member
 * A fake clan member is someone who puts a known clantag to his nickname without being allowed to. The reasons to doing this are quite different. The easiest possibility is that he want to participate on the good reputation of the clan. Another possible reason is that he has failed to get into a clan and is now ingoring the clan's decision or want to take vengeance on them. A third possibility for the appearance of fake clan members is the intention to damage a clan's reputation with actions like cheating or insulting.

Ingame
The identfication of a fake clan member takes normally a simple look at the clan's members list on their website (which should be regulary updated). Another common way takes place if the fake clan member is playing on a server which is hosted by "his" clan: Just ask him to take admin, which he normally should be allowed to do so.

Prevention
Recent versions of AssaultCube allow you to create a nickname whitelist and blacklist. Information about this, taken from nicknameblacklist.cfg: