Incompetence in Forgery

2017-07-15

Ars Technica has a hilarious article on a case of forgery discovered due to an anachronistic font in use. It said that the forger had prepared a lovely set of Microsoft Word documents containing the necessary forged content and presented these in accordance with those status quo activities of skullduggery.

It seems that the forged documents were done up so prettily in a font which didn't make it to the world for years after the forged dates supplied in the text. The moral of the story is if you're going to go to the trouble to forge documents with a word processor you need to make sure that those technical aspects which may stand legal scrutiny can indeed do so.

Things like the font, the ink or toner, the paper, that printer identity encoding you can't easily see to find ... you know; things with which a court of law under the examination of a competent forensic science person might have a field day.

Absolutely stupefying dain brammage if you ask me. I would never have gone there.