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NY wrote:
Faxes are dead easy to forge if you have the will and the intent. When I
had to fax a letter of authority to cash in some of my savings, I
didn't use a dedicated fax machine because I don't have one and I
wasn't going to make a special journey into town to pay to use the one
in library. Instead I used the fax modem in my laptop and "printed" a
scan of the signed letter - I faxed exactly the same scan that I would
have emailed to them if they'd have accepted emails: identical data
sent by a different means.

If I'd had criminal intent I could have pasted a scan of someone else's
signature copied from a scan of another unrelated document - easier and
less obvious if you do it digitally rather than with scissors and glue
:-)

Unusual to accept any copy of a signature for anything vaguely important.
They might well accept a copy of the document with a real signature added,
sent by post, though.

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*And the cardiologist' s diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.

Dave Plowman London SW
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