NCJ Number
176258
Date Published
1997
Length
155 pages
Annotation
An inmate who has committed document frauds for more than 20 years and has 22 felony convictions explains modern techniques of document fraud, including the forgery of checks, stock certificates, vehicle titles, credit cards, identification, and other documents and methods of perpetrating insurance fraud and other scams.
Abstract
Individual sections explain the computer equipment the forger needs and alternative methods of acquiring it, the necessary software, and the use of a scanner to copy the documents that the forger intends to duplicate or alter. Additional sections explain how forgers obtain the appropriate paper, the use of the notary stamp or seal, and the processes for creating specific types of documents. Further sections provide instructions for forging checks, stock certificates, trust deeds, vehicle titles, credit cards, alternative identification, and counterfeit money. It also explains how to perpetrate insurance fraud, and other tenant scams, other real estate scams and how to set up an office from which to conduct scams. Checklists, sample documents, photographs, illustrations, descriptions of other books from the same publisher, and order form