(a) It is unlawful for any person to forge or counterfeit any instrument, or possess any counterfeit instrument, with the intent to injure or defraud any person, financial institution, or governmental unit. Any person in violation of this subsection is guilty of a Class I felony.
Who Conducts the Analysis. The analysis should be performed by a qualified forensic document examiner, preferably one who is a member of a well-established professional association such as the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners (ABFDE) or the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE).
Forgery detection refers to the process of identifying and preventing the creation of fraudulent or unauthorized data or messages. It involves the use of message authentication codes to verify the authenticity and integrity of the transmitted information.
Forensic document examiners are called to investigate the authenticity of documents in situations such as: forgeries. counterfeiting. identity theft.
A forgery offense can be committed in the following ways: By signing someone else's name without the other person's authority (California Penal Code Section 470(a) PC) By counterfeiting or forging another person's handwriting or seal on a document (California Penal Code Section 470(b) PC)
Investigators analyze and compare various traits, such as the appearance of letters, of suspicious documents with known samples to help identify the author of the document. Investigators might also be asked to detect changes that may have occurred in an original document.
Forgery Specialists - These are public or private experts who analyze, altered, obliterated, changed, or doctored documents and photos using infrared lighting and other equipment.
Whoever commits forgery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
(falsity in the forgery context is a term of art that developed in the common law; the essential elements of the common law crime of forgery are (1) a false making of some instrument in writing; (2) a fraudulent intent; and (3) an instrument apparently capable of effecting a fraud; in addition to the common law ...