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What is Forgery?

Forgery is often defined as a white collar crime which refers to the illegal fabrication or altering of a document with the intention to defraud someone else. The penalties for forgery can include jail time and monetary fines, but it can also result in the loss of property and the loss of the right to hold certain types of licenses. If you are accused of forgery, you should have an experienced criminal defense attorney by your side to defend you.

 

Forgery can be performed by individuals or by corporations. In the past, forgery was a very serious crime and involved the use of forged instruments to defraud a person. The use of forged instruments is still considered a serious crime today and can have very severe consequences. Most people believe that a forged signature is less serious than a forged signature on a loan application or some other type of financial transaction, but the reality is that a forged signature can cause damage to property, can cause the loss of a property and can even result in a criminal charge.

 

There are a number of ways that you can be charged with a white collar crime. The most common is to commit a forgery when someone applies for credit or obtains information from an official source and uses it without proper authorization. When the person does this, the source of the information can either be the government or another company. These situations are often referred to as tax crimes because these frauds are often associated with people who commit tax frauds.

 

Forgery can also be considered to involve using the names of another individual. This is commonly used by employers in order to obtain job security or to get an employee to sign a document when they don't know the information that it contains. It can also occur in the workplace when employees use their social security numbers in order to apply for a loan or make other types of financial transactions that they don't know the details of. It is also possible to be charged with a forgery when the person does it on an electronic document such as a credit card.

 

Another common way that forgery involves the use of false personal identification is when someone signs documents or files them in a way that doesn't match what they say. Many fraudulent charges are made for items and services that aren't in the correct place. This includes things like ordering a car parts online and later paying for the parts with your credit card without even realizing it.