Forgery

[summanotre]

Im not sure if this is in the right place, but I hope it is of help to anyone who may have experienced some type of forgery/manipulation of documents that you have supposedly written on or had their signature 'lifted'.

 

Its an issue I have at the moment and the closer I looked at the document the more I noticed its not my handwriting and the signature has been manipulated. So as I was really upset I called my son who does forensics and he is going on to specialise in handwriting analyses. He told me that if you get to court regarding forgery you should collect a minumum of 10 peices of your signature/handwriting.

 

Hope that is of some use to someone.

[patrickq1]

thanks it will help more than a few on here as it seems some devious DCAs like to practice the art of handwriting so worth knowing

[summanotre]

Indeed, and dont forget partial forgeries. For eg someone has forged the second half of my surname, numbers and 'x's on the form I have received.

[summanotre]

Just a quick note to those suffering with possible forgeries, I have been advised by my solicitor to sign my all my letters to OC''s and DCA's, keeping good quality photocopies + sending additional photocopies to him. I thought this is contradictory to advice given elsewhere on the forum, so I asked why I should sign my letters.

 

He explains this is because if they are forging your signature, say by lifting it from your letters, this can be proved by providing a photocopy with the identical signature on it - and as you are probably aware, nobody signs their signature exactly the same every time. So if they have various signatures of yours, then those can be compared to the photocopied letters you sent to them. Thats why I stressed good quality photocopies. This will really screw them in court and the more forgeries they produce the better for you because they are committing a criminal offence, whether they have forged only one signature its still a criminal offence and they deserve to have the book thrown at them. You have a choice as to what type of court it goes to. Personally, forgery/fraud is a criminal offence so Im considering asking the police to investigate and go Criminal Court.

 

Its a personal choice as to which court you go to, it depends upon your perception of the severity of the case.

 

I hope that is of some help.

[yourbank]

I knew the bit about a signature never being the same every time but I know so much useless stuff(only useful for pub quizzes )

[summanotre]

I know so much useless stuff(only useful for pub quizzes )

 

and Im useless at them

[patrickq1]

i personally would involve the police their is nothing worse or more sinister than deceptive practices,and when that is over you are still at liberty to go through the civil courts for compensation and i think also the FSO FSA AND OTHERS would most certainly have to begin actions against any company taking this stance of forging signatures

patrickq1

[summanotre]

Thanks patrickq1 - I think that is very useful and excellent advice & I wholehearteldy agree