Document+Alteration

I found that with document alteration, it is not feasable to forge or alter documents with household items for it to make a marginal difference. Our group tried to scrape off pen, use alcohol to erase it, use cotton balls to absorb the ink, and even white out. White out seemed to work the best at altering the check. Others had made additional marks with pens, white out and other such stuff. Before this though we also did some chromatography. This is helpful to determine the different colors within certain penmark and to see if it matches another "suspect" pen. This also helps to determine the original meaning of the document if you can decipher what was underneath the alterations.

Our attempts to change something even on plain white computer paper didn't work so well. Although the chromatography was a big help when trying to decide if the same pen was used through out the whole document. However be careful when your trying chromatography as its very easy to mess up and ruin the sample in the process.

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