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        individualized, often in a           tion of thesignature itself          to cover the indentations.
        style quite distinct from            and by a comparison of it            The tactic of exposing this
        that of the writer’s other           with genuine signatures              sort of tracing is examina-

        handwriting                          (Osborn, 1910). A tracing  tion under video spectral
                                             is self- explanatory. It is          comparator. Additionally,

        (Lindblom, 2006). How-               simply drawing over the              the examiner may find
        ever signatures are being            signature or writing. This           that the indentations of the
        used on a regular basis              might be accomplished                traced line don’t match up

        and are more prone                   in several other ways. A             with the ink line. Every
        to committing fraud com-             genuine signature is often  individual’s writing has

        pared to handwritings, as            placed on another paper,             natural variation in his/
        the signatures are more              and then the strokes of the  her writing. While some
        frequently used to                   model signature are drawn  writers show more control

        defraud a person for                 over it, leaving an in-              or higher skill than other
        personal benefit or for              dented impression on the             writers, some writers have

        harming an individual or             paper underneath.                    more or less variation in
        organization (Tarannum,                                                   their writing counting on
        2018). There are different  The indentations are of-                      the skill level and circum-

        types of forgery meth-               ten followed with writing            stances under which the
        ods to defraud a person              instrument producing a               writing is executed. Be-

        such as simulated forg-              thorough duplicate of the            cause we aren’t machines,
        ery, traced forgery, trans-          model signature. To accu-            we cannot exactly repli-
        planted forgery, spurious            rately follow deep                   cate our writing whenever

        signatures etc; the type of  indentations, the drawing                    we write. Though it’s go-
        forgery discussed in this            must be done slowly leav- ing to seem so with highly

        study is traced forgery.             ing evidence of tremors              skilled writers, a person’s
                                             and slowness and                     signatures aren’t exact
        It is very natural that the          sometimes hesitation,                duplicates whenever the

        model signature from                 pen lifts, pen stops, blunt          name is signed. There’ll
        which a traced forgery               beginnings, restarts, and            be slight variation in each

        was actually executed                endings, and retouching.             signature.
        should not be discovered,            A fiber-tip pen is often
        and the true character of            used to cover the indented  A letter or character may

        such a disputed signature            guidelines. The benefit is           even vary whether it’s
        must ordinarily be deter-            that the tip and subsequent  written at beginning of a

        mined by an examina-                 ink line are broad enough            word, the middle of the

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