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Research News - Singling Out the Fake
WAR stories often tell the heroic help of the masters of forgeries forging travel documents for the prisoners. Or we have watched a movie, Catch Me if You Can - Leonardo Di Caprio playing the great con Frank Abagnale forging cheques. Worse now, cons are getting cleverer faking paintings, money, wills, and the list goes on. Surely document examiners and police are busy tracing.
Analysis of writing materials like inks is a very important part of forensic examinations. Sadly, modern writing materials, with increased technology and literacy, increase document forgery, giving the forensic document examiner more jobs to do. Hence, to ease those in the forensic department, Mohamed Izzharif Abdul Halim of the Faculty of Applied Sciences planned to create a method to distinguish colours, brands, types of pen inks and their chemicals.
The examination of inks is often performed to determine whether the inks are identical or otherwise. Distinguishing different inks can assist documents examiners when there is suspicion of alteration. For instance, writing with a pen of similar colour but different dye composition will show alteration. In criminal cases, this is vital...More
