forgers
Makers of fakes
Forgers are people who create fraudulent imitations—most often of signatures, documents, currency, or artwork.
A forger of checks signs someone else's name; a forger of paintings produces fake Vermeers.
The word also applies to metalworkers who shape metal by heating and hammering, though this sense is less common today: The forgers worked the iron at their anvils.
Medium of exchange
- banknotesPaper currency notes
- fakeNot the real thing
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- bogusCounterfeit or fraudulent
bills · falsify · duplicate · replicate · watermarks · holograms · plates · printing
Intentional criminal trickery
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- swindleDeception for financial gain
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
charlatan · deceit · duplicity · subterfuge · sham · fabrication · impostor · con artist
Pictures made with pigment
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
- authenticationConfirming genuine identity
- provenanceRecord of ownership
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
gallery · curator · attribution · brushstrokes · pigment · canvas · patina · experts
Government-issued travel identification
- identityWho someone is
- certificatesOfficial proof documents
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
- sealsAquatic whiskered mammals
stamps · diplomas · credentials · papers · visas · licenses · records · notarization
currency
Medium of exchange
bills · bogus · falsify · duplicate · replicate · watermarks · holograms · plates · printing · detection
fraud
Intentional criminal trickery
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- swindleDeception for financial gain
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
scam · charlatan · deceit · duplicity · subterfuge · sham · fabrication · impostor · con artist · pretense
paintings
Pictures made with pigment
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
- authenticationConfirming genuine identity
- provenanceRecord of ownership
masterpiece · gallery · curator · attribution · brushstrokes · pigment · canvas · patina · experts · auction
passports
Government-issued travel identification
- identityWho someone is
- certificatesOfficial proof documents
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
seals · stamps · diplomas · credentials · papers · visas · licenses · records · notarization · authentication
blacksmith
Iron-shaping craftsperson
foundry · smelting · ironwork · metalwork · welding · casting · tempering · bellows · smithy · wrought
- infringerspirates, plagiarists, counterfeiters, bootleggers, software pirates
- roguesrogue, rogues, scoundrel, scoundrels, rascal
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers
- counterfeitingfake money, fake bills, bogus bills, funny money, printing plates
- metalworkersblacksmith, blacksmiths, silversmith, silversmiths, goldsmith
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
forgersauthenticators
Tools confirming identity
verifiers · appraisers · certifiers · validators · notaries
forgersoriginators
Those who create first
creators · inventors · innovators · visionaries · masters
- forged aheadAdvanced with determination
- forge aheadProceed with determination
- art forgeryFaking valuable artwork
- forged documentsFraudulently created official papers
- forged signatureFraudulently imitated handwritten name
- forged passportIllegally created travel document