Handwriting
Forgery
Counterfeiting
What is that Word?
What handwriting characteristic?
100

This is the type of evidence that handwriting is considered, since it is unique to each person

What is individual evidence?

100
Documents made, adapted, or falsified with the intention of deceiving someone.
What are forgeries?
100
They are responsible for investigating counterfeit US currency.
Who is the US Secret Service.
100
Any signature, handwriting, typewriting, or other written mark whose source or authenticity is in dispute or uncertain.
What is a questioned document?
100

The letters are erratic or shaky.

What is a "letter form" characteristic?

200
What a known sample is also called.
What is exemplar?
200
When a material gain accompanies a forgery.
What is fraudulence?
200
Paper US currency lacks this material.
What is starch?
200
A standard document of known origin and authorship used in handwriting analysis.
What is an exemplar?
200

Spacing between words or letters in a word

What is a "formatting" characteristic?

300

This is a person who analyzes handwritten, typed, or computer generated documents in order to determine their authenticity.

What is a document expert?

300
Forgery of a piece of writing, such as an historic letter or manuscript.
What is literary forgery?
300
This appears on the right side of the portrait on a bill in light.
What is a watermark?
300
The examination of questioned documents with known material for a variety of analyses, such as authenticity, alterations, erasures, and obliterations.
What is document analysis?
300

The text is on the line, above the line, or below the line.

What is a "formatting" characteristic?

400

This is a database maintained by the Secret Service that enables document examiners to scan and digitize text writings for comparison against known documents and samples.

What is FISH?

400
Intercepting someone's check, altering it, and cashing it.
What is check forgery?
400

This is an anti-counterfeiting measure in which ink on US dollar bills changes from copper to green when viewed at different angles.

What is color changing ink?

400
The production of an imitation of currency, works of art, documents, and name-brand look-alikes for the purpose of deception
What is counterfeiting?
400

Darkness of lines created by utensil pressure?

What is a "line form" characteristic?

500

These are the three main characteristics used in handwriting analysis

What are "Formatting", "Letter Formation", and "Line Formation"?

500
once a wanted forger and is now a leading consultant in the area of document forgery and fraudulence.
Who is Frank Abagnale?
500

This type of ink reacts with starch to identify a counterfeit US bill (found in counterfeit testing pens)?

What is iodine?

500
This is a network of fine cracks in the paint or varnish of an old painting.

What is craquelure?

500

Writing that slants to the right, left, or variable.

What is a "line form" characteristic?
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