translate English to French: The scrip process was marked by fraud, however, with many Métis families losing their scrip (and their land rights) to unscrupulous agents who easily forged their signatures on documents.
Le système de certificat s'entache cependant de fraudes, et plusieurs familles de Métis se font voler leur certificat (et leurs droits fonciers) par des agents sans scrupules qui imitent leur signature.