Frank Abagnale

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

American Celebrity

Kevin Young

While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false claims; any revelations merely provide further opportunities for details and forgery.

Umberto Eco

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Italian Novelist

James Fenton

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

British Poet

Alger Hiss

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

American Public Servant

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

Ralph Hodgson

The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

English Poet

Forgery implies intentional deceit, not just an innocent mistake.

Criminal Intent

Use 'forgery' when discussing legal matters to show severity; it's a serious crime.

Legal Seriousness

Forgery often implies skillful work to replicate something authentically, not a sloppy copy.

Not Amateurish

Related to 'forgery', artworks are common targets, due to their high value.

Art World

This type of 'forgery' is made to deceive collectors and experts, often with intricate detail.

Deceptive Quality

'Forgery' implies a lack of authenticity, often casting doubt on the forger's morality.

Negative Connotation

 or a forgery americans were known to have a lot of money and a lot less experience with paintings than europeans and so they were seen as something of an easy mark and what forbes decided to do was be able to test the pigments that were being used and see if they were available during the artist's lifetime

An Accidental Case of...

 which was viewed as Vermeer's finest masterpiece, his best work -- people would come all over the world to see it -- was actually a forgery. It was not that painting, but that painting. And when that was discovered, it lost all its value and was taken away from the museum.

Paul Bloom: The origins...

 And there we are, I can give them to you. With this kind of imaging -- this kind of infrared, ultraviolet, invisible light imaging -- we were never going to image through the gold ground forgeries. How were we going to do that? Well we took the manuscript,

William Noel: Revealing...

 fast about it so the top traveling's of books on that now compare that with the real price increments and when a real price increments well these other lines includes some real price increments and some forgeries chart data so the idea

Fractals and the art of...

 until she is sentenced for her forgery conviction and that could take months I want to be no jail time no jail time I go to school for nursing I can't be in jail she's five weeks from starting her last year of nursing school

Locked Up in St. Louis PIPE...

 There are thousands of books on that. Now compare that with real price increments. Where are real price increments? Well, these other lines include some real price increments and some forgery which I did.

Benoit Mandelbrot:...

 so much so that they were later forged in turn by his own son. The same canvases went from revered classics to despised forgeries to works of art respected for the skill and notoriety of the forger.

The art forger who...

 It can help us determine when a work was written, whether an ancient text is a forgery, whether a student has committed plagiarism, or if that email you just received is of a high priority or spam.

Did Shakespeare write...

 European rulers were thrilled. While the letter’s actual author remains unknown, its stereotypes about the East and alignment with European goals indicate it was a Western forgery.

The imaginary king who...

 Instead, become someone else, your true self, your authentic self. Now, this isn't about a return to the past. It's about using a forgery of the past