forging signatures,have you ever done it?

[gary r]

Ok confession time for me!!

1/I once forged Kevin Keegans signature and swapped it for something (i cant remember what) with a kid at school,I had a plastic Kevin Keegan football that had his signature on it so i knew what his signature looked like !

2/my mum & dads signatures on various school absentee letters

3/ signed off my own timesheets at work when the authoriser was away

4/ cant tell you about this one im, sure i could get into trouble for it !!!!!

im not painting a good picture of myself but im sure im not alone

 

[Hover Fly]

I once helped my lodger out, he was arguing with his bank about a debt and was sure they had no signed agreement, but wanted a letter about it, he was sure if he signed a letter they would forge his signature onto a copy of the agreement, so I wrote his name on the bottom of his letter. We pulled it off.

 

[wiggydiggy]

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2/my mum & dads signatures on various school absentee letters

Yup done that, didnt get away with it

 

[tyred]

2/my mum & dads signatures on various school absentee letters

That's the only one I ever done. Repeatedly, and also for friends. It's why I have about four completely different styles of handwriting I can use as practice makes perfect.


In particular, I hated PE with a passion as I've never been remotely interested in team sports like football or hockey so I wrote my own sick notes.

 

[coffeejo]

Ditto the parental signature for school. We had a homework diary that our parents were meant to read and sign. Neither of mine were aware of its existence

 

[XmisterIS]

When I was at school, we used to get given so-called "green papers" if we had been badly behaved, or failed to submit homework, etc.

These were sheets of foolscap in a particular shade of green and had to be signed by one's tutor, who kept a record of the number of green papers you'd been given. You then had to do some kind of academic work on the green paper. If you got more than a certain number of green papers in any one term, then you got extra punishment.

As someone who routinely got into trouble at school, I used to pick the lock on the desk in the office of one of the tutors (it was known by some that his desk lock could be picked - but only a few of us had the cheek to actually do it!), I'd help myself to a wadge of green papers. I would then keep some for myself and sell the others to my fellow scallywags, with the required forged signature.

Sometimes it worked because the tutor never checked, sometimes I'd get found out! Then I was really in the sh*t!

The headmaster's most-used phrase in my presence was, "Oh for Goodness sake, boy! It's you again! What have you done now?!"

 

[vernon]

No but I've pretended to be a woman on a dating site because my Turkish colleague's communication skills weren't sufficiently polished to initiate and maintain meaningful exchanges.

She's still going out with the hapless chap four years on.

He still none the wiser.

 

[Melonfish]

not really had to forge anything, although in school my tutor accused me of signing my homework planner repeatedly, it had to be signed by your parents weekly.
my dad's signature is without doubt a squashed spider, comes from a good few years working for securicor before moving on to GMP where it got worse.
at least once a year my dad would have to come in and sign something in front of my form tutor so she would stop sending nasty letters home and detentions about my homework planner being forged!

the upshot of this was however that i could not for the life of me forge my dad's signature, its nigh on impossible yet because its such a scribble its illegible!

 

[RedRider]

One day in the '70s my dad presented me with a casey he won in a raffle at work, signed by all the Liverpool and Everton players from that season's derby game in red and blue ink. I mentioned it in passing last year and he looks at me with a mixture of incredulity that I never worked it out and sheepishness...the blue ink was kosher but the red was all his own work.

No wonder he wasn't that bothered when me and my mates were kicking it about the street those years.

 

[wiggydiggy]

One day in the '70s my dad presented me with a casey he won in a raffle at work, signed by all the Liverpool and Everton players from that season's derby game in red and blue ink. I mentioned it in passing last year and he looks at me with a mixture of incredulity that I never worked it out and sheepishness...the blue ink was kosher but the red was all his own work.

No wonder he wasn't that bothered when me and my mates were kicking it about the street those years.

What! So it was 50% real and he still let you kick it about....Disgraceful lol

 

[captain nemo1701]

Not exactly forging a signature, but recently while doing my work expenses, I noticed that the taxi driver had forgotten to enter the £12 fare on his card, so I fiddled it myself. Even practiced the guy's handwriting in black biro before doing the deed . The accounts dept know roughly how much it would be, so no fiddling large amounts . Well, a £120 taxi fare for a ten minute ride would look a bit suspect .

 

[Lucheni]

I never had to forge a signature on school note (Goody Two Shoes! ) We had homework diaries and a booklet to keep track of our reading aloud but my mum trusted me enough to sign pretty much anything I waved in front of her.

I'm surprised there wasn't a regular hassle every time I needed a note though. My dad always wrote in block capitals and my mum has such terrible spelling that she was embarrassed to write anything "official". I never forged the signature but I always had to write the note.

Before chip and PIN was everywhere I used my mum's credit card a few times and signed the receipt. It didn't look anything like her signature, shame about not needing the practice as a kid. Most times shop staff didn't even check.


I've pretended to be somebody else on the phone a few times.

 

[gary r]

One day in the '70s my dad presented me with a casey he won in a raffle at work, signed by all the Liverpool and Everton players from that season's derby game in red and blue ink. I mentioned it in passing last year and he looks at me with a mixture of incredulity that I never worked it out and sheepishness...the blue ink was kosher but the red was all his own work.

No wonder he wasn't that bothered when me and my mates were kicking it about the street those years.

Want to buy a Kevin Keegan autograph from me ??

 

[pepecat]

Sort of.......

Apparently if you do the signature upside down (as in, when you're writing it, turn the paper upside down and write it the wrong way up), it looks more authentic than if you try and write it normally. An academic i know swears by this method.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I once did my Mum's for homework about 100 years ago, but it was so ropey that she was instantly suspicious when she saw it later (it was one of those diary thingimybobbers). She never did anything though, just rolled her eyes and that was it

She was a Primary School Teacher, so there was usually no getting past her with things, she *KNEW!*