Topic summary
Counterfeiting

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Counterfeit.
Counterfeiting of documents
Forgery is the process of making facsimiles or adapting documents with the intention to deceive. It is a form of fraud, and is often a key technique in the execution of identity theft. Uttering is a term in United States law for the forgery of non-official documents, such as a trucking company's time and weight logs.