FORGED & QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS

Mr. Delbert Marano

Credentials

Forgery Examiners. are accurately called Forensic Document Experts or Questioned Document Analysts. They are the professional expert witness who separates the forged signatures from authentic ones.

The detection of forgery is tricky business and should not be attempted by the novice. For example, tremor in the writing line is usually an indication of forgery. But only a professional Handwriting Expert can determine when tremor in the writing line is the tremor of forgery or authentic tremor due to infirmity, age, medication or damage to the writing hand.

There are several types of forgery: Simple Forgeries, Simulated Forgeries and Traced Forgeries. Others are.....Signature Authentication, Writer Identification, Verify Handwriting  just about every day I am asked to authenticate signatures on contracts or other types of documents. Ether the signature has been forged and someone is trying to enforce a bogus contract on the strength of a forged signature, or the signature is legitimate but is being denied by one of the parties who want to get out of a particular contract.

In order to authenticate signatures on such documents it is necessary to obtain numerous true signature samples by the real person whose signature on the document has come under question. These signature specimens are then compared with the .Questioned Signature. to see if that signature is a forgery or authentic. Significance of documents in our world. In fact, every major personal event of your life is Attested to by a signature.

A Doctor signed your birth Certificate thus establishing your rights and privileges as a U. S. Citizen. You entered school on the strength of a form that was filled out which included a signature. Your High School and College Diplomas are ratified with signatures. The purchase agreement for your first car and ratified by a License that bears an official's signature. Your first business was established in the same way a Signature.

These documents that spin our world around provide the DEFRAUDERS with the raw materials necessary to accomplish their dastardly deeds. Whatever document that you can imagine, the crook can also imagine and mold toward his purposes.

An experienced Forgery Expert can render OPINIONS Regarding any number of documents. As a Document Examiner you  come in contact with.

26 out of all 50 States in the U. S. reported the number one crime problem facing police agencies and investigators today was not murder, grand larceny, car theft, or domestic violence, but was. CHECK FRAUD.

Since October 1999,we here in the U. S. have seen a steady increase in financial fraud. Normally, from October through February is the most busy time of the year for scam artist. And for most Investigators working the U.S today.