Are you wondering if a document contains a forged signature, if you or your client has been defrauded, who wrote a workplace threat note,

or if a PDF document contains copy and pasted sections or signatures?

When you need to feel confident about documents that may affect your future and need answers to the above questions or other questioned document matters, call Forensic Forgery Detection (FFD) at 434-917-1367 today to see if Anne Smith may be the right forensic document examiner and handwriting expert for your case.

Your initial 20-minute telephone consultation is free. So contact FFD and learn about the entire forensic document examination process, as it specifically applies to your type of case.

As FFD's court-qualified forensic document examiner and handwriting expert, Anne Smith has expertise both in time-honored forensic document and handwriting analysis methods and in modern techniques used to cut or copy and paste forged signatures and sections of documents. She uses up-to-date digital image scanning equipment and specialized computer software techniques to analyze both types of document and handwriting analysis to find evidence of forgery.

Using scientific document examination techniques, numerous document or signature samples are carefully analyzed and compared to the questioned document or signature. Patterns of significant differences become evidence of forgery.

Definition of a document: Anything on which something may be written, carved, marked, typed, or created by a human being.

When Do You Need a Forensic Document Examiner?

Handwriting Analysis

Who really signed that document? This type of forensic handwriting analysis is called  signature verification.  FFD's forensic document examiner, Anne Smith  provides an opinion as to whether or not a signature is someone's genuine signature. This is the category in which most forensic document examination cases fall. If this type of case goes to court, the judge may qualify the document examiner as a handwriting expert or a document examination expert.

Need to know who wrote an anonymous letter? What about an anonymous threat note at the workplace? A forensic document examiner can determine who wrote it.  This type of forensic handwriting analysis is called author identification.

Forensic handwriting analysis is different from another type of handwriting analysis which is used to gain insights into a person’s personality.

Forensic document examination may include more than just analyzing handwriting.

If you need a simple accounting of someone’s spending habits, contact FFD. In a recent case, the Judge rendered a judgment that each party would be awarded half of a cumulative total of certain checks. If credit card statements and banking statements had also been included in the examination, the cumulative total spending patterns would have been larger and there might have been a different outcome. To clarify, these skills are only similar to forensic accounting.

Some other types of forgery a forensic document examiner knows how to look for include different paper thicknesses , differences between writing utensil inks, equipment ink patterns and typist’s writing patterns. Where you may see a uniform document, a forensic document examiner can identify patterns of similarities and differences to uncover the truth. 

Finding these patterns of differences within questioned documents is just the evidence FFD can discover for you.

Cut or Copy and Pasted Forgery

This category of document examination is becoming more and more prevalent.  Today, it’s all too easy for someone to cut or copy and paste a signature or section of a document from one document to another. Cut or copy and paste forgery is digital manipulation that can be discovered using specialized document examination techniques. FFD has the skill sets to let you know if sections and/or your signature were cut or copied and pasted onto the questioned document.

If a PDF document’s metadata hasn’t been erased, FFD can provide details about its metadata: date and time created and time zone, dates and times modified and time zones, and office equipment used.

Remember all paper documents can be scanned — whether it’s contracts, receipts, wills, powers of attorney, letters, invoices, etc. — and can be manipulated by those trying to rob you.

About Forensic Document Examiner Anne Smith

As a court-qualified forensic document examiner and handwriting expert, Anne is mainly retained by attorneys and has also been retained by companies, organizations and individuals. She has the skills, education, experience, knowledge, and training you need. Her expertise in questioned document examination can provide evidence if  you or your client has been defrauded.

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Disclaimer:

The terms forgery and forged are used within these pages for clarity only, as these terms are most easily understood.

Forgery, a legal term covered by federal and various state criminal statutes, is when a person makes or alters a document, with the intent to defraud someone. If the trier of facts (the judge or jury) decides a document/signature is forged, it is not unusual for judges or juries to impose lengthy prison sentences and considerable fines.

You are advised to seek legal advice from an attorney who can offer guidance and representation in a practice area that fits your unique need or problem.