Handwriting Analysis, Forgery, Counterfeiting

The examination and comparison of questioned documents with known material is known as ____.

• Exemplars

• QD Examiner

• Document Analysis

• Fraudulence

The making, altering, or falsifying a person's signature or another aspect of a document the intention of deception.

• forgery

• currency

• fraudulence

• exemplar

A standard document of known origin and authorship used in handwriting analysis for comparison to documents of unknown authorship.

• forgery

• currency

• fraudulence

• exemplar

What is the main difference between forgery and fraud?

• With fraud, there is material (property, money, etc.) gain, and with forgery the intent is just to deceive.

• Fraud has more syllables than forgery.

• Forgery is illegal but fraud is not.

Forging a piece of writing like a letter or manuscript, often from a well-known author, is called...

• Literary forgery

• Novel forgery

• Document forgery

• Historic forgery

All of these documents are commonly forged except

• legal agreements

• your pet's veterinarian records

• employment records

• historic letters or manuscripts

• checks

Any signature, handwriting, typewriting, or other written mark whose source or authenticity is in dispute or uncertain is called a(n) ___.

• counterfeiting

• document analysis example

• exemplar

• questioned document

What acronym is used to describe the computerized handwriting database maintained by the Secret Service?

• AFIS

• FRCI

• HWSP

• FISH

Handwriting is similar to ________________. There are no two people that write the same.

• Blood types

• Fingerprints

• Hair Samples

• Skin color

Which one of these is not a characteristic of handwriting?

• spacing between letters and words

• line quality

• color of ink

• size consistency