This is the number of major categories of exemplars that handwriting experts examine.
What is 12?
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 flow or are erratic or shaky.
What is line quality?
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
Part of the letter is missing.
What is letters complete?
300
This computerized pad recognizes your signature based on speed, pressure, and rhythm of signing your name.
What are biometric signature pads?
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 line habits?
400
This is prepared by the expert handwriting witness to present to a jury.
What is a written report?
400
Intercepting someone's check, altering it, and cashing it.
What is check forgery?
400
This appears standing out in comparison to the background and appears to be raised off the paper on US paper currency.
What is the portrait?
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
It is equal when applied upward and downward on strokes.
What is pen pressure?
500
These are the three basic steps in the process of analyzing a handwriting sample.
What is the questioned document and the standards are examined and characteristics are recorded, the characters of the questioned item are compared with the known standard, and experts determine which characteristics are valuable for drawing a conclusion?
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.
What is iodine?
500
A number that represents how far a compound travels in a particular solvent.