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Forensic Fontology
André G. Isaak
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July 2017
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I figured some might find the below interesting: The take away point is that font choice matters when trying to commit fraud.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/asia/maryam-nawaz-sharif-calibri-font-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool
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Thomas Höggren
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July 2017
Liked the article, Gracias. I shall be careful which fonts I use in my documents here on...
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joeclark
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July 2017
Please don’t paste in raw URLs, least of all with trackers appended.
So-called moderators should be fixing all such postings on sight.
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Russell McGorman
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July 2017
There must be an army of fraudsters and charlatans out there who thought they could game the system with back-dated phoney documents set it fonts that didn't exist the the time the documents were supposes to have originated.
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Paul Miller
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July 2017
It's OK. If someone notices you can always just edit Wikipedia to make it look as though the font was available at the time !
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André G. Isaak
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July 2017
@Paul
Miller: Good Point. I'll be posting my original Magna Carta (typeset in Futura) on eBay shortly!
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So-called moderators should be fixing all such postings on sight.