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forgery

The making of a false document, painting, or object with deliberate intention to deceive or defraud. The most common forgeries involve financial instruments such as cheques or credit-card transactions or money (counterfeiting). There are also literary forgeries, forged coins, and forged antiques.

Financial gain is not the only motive for forgery. Han van Meegeren probably began painting in the style of Vermeer to make fools of the critics, but found such a ready market for his creations that he became a rich man before he was forced to confess. The archaeological Piltdown Man hoax in England in 1912 also appears to have been a practical joke.

forgery

In computing, the art of falsifying either the contents or the origins of a message. On the Internet, where a person's identity is shaped by his/her words as sent out via e-mail or public conferencing systems, sending out a forged message in another person's name can seriously damage them.



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At so much a week, they had engaged the services of a young man (pers onally known to Benjamin), who was employed in a laboratory under a professor of chemistry, and who had distinguished himself by his skillful manipulation of paper in a recent case of forgery on a well-known London firm.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Listen; this is his description: `Benedetto, condemned, at the age of sixteen, for five years to the galleys for forgery.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
They were mostly of a felonious character; comprising the pen with which a celebrated forgery had been committed, a distinguished razor or two, some locks of hair, and several manuscript confessions written under condemnation - upon which Mr.
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