Questioned Documents, Forgery, Counterfeiting

The examination of documents for authenticity, alterations, erasures, and obliterations.

• Questioned document

• Document analysis

• Counterfeiting

• Fraudulence

Imitations of original items like currency, designer bags, shoes and other items created in order to deceive:

• Questioned document

• Document analysis

• Counterfeiting

• Fraudulence

Forgery for the purpose of financial gain.

• Questioned document

• Document analysis

• Counterfeiting

• Fraudulence

Any signature, handwriting, typewritten, or other mark whose authenticity is disputed.

• Questioned document

• Document analysis

• Counterfeiting

• Fraudulence

A standard document of known origin and authorship used as a comparison in handwriting analysis.

• Questioned document

• Exemplar

• Currency

• Forgery

Making, adapting, or falsifying documents in order to deceive someone.

• Questioned document

• Exemplar

• Currency

• Forgery

Someone who scientifically analyzes handwriting.

• Vice cop

• Document examiner

• Toxicologist

• Anthropologist

Criminals can acquire or alter checks in many ways, including

• ordering someone else's checks from a deposit slip.

• directly altering a check.

• intercepting someone's check, altering it and cashing it.

• all of these choices

Literary forgery refers to the forgery of a

• piece of art.

• signature.

• piece of writing such as an historic letter or manuscript.

• none of these.

• all of these.

Documents are sometimes chemically teated to make them look

• newer.

• older.

• foreign.

• forged.