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This can occur when a company impersonates an airline’s customer-service number or site, often by buying a sponsored ad on a search platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

The scheme, outlined in court documents, bears striking similarities to the 2002 DiCaprio film in which a charming teenager running from the FBI impersonates a pilot to jet around the world.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

With Thursday’s criminal complaint containing allegations of phone conversations in which Mizuhara actually impersonates Ohtani to gain access to the money, I believe.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

An X account called “Mossad Commentary,” which impersonates Israel’s intelligence agency, made such a claim in a post on Monday at 3:49 a.m.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

And how dominionless over our sympathy has the glowing and tender-hearted Virgil, perhaps unavoidably, made the Hero, who impersonates his rational interest!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various