Patent ID: 8005273

Claim:
A method of identifying a document comprising forged information using a computer system, comprising: providing the document to the computer system, wherein the document provided to the computer system comprises one or more information fields; the computer system determining one or more variances in handwriting within an information field of the document provided to the computer system, wherein the one or more variances in handwriting within the information field include written characters of the same type being written by at least two different individuals; identifying the document provided to the computer system as a document comprising forged information from the determined one or more variances within the information field including the written characters of the same type being written by at least two different individuals; and assessing fraud in the document provided to the computer system, wherein evidence of fraud comprises at least one of the determined one or more variances within the information field of the document provided to the computer system, wherein assessing fraud in the document provided to the computer system comprises performing two or more different fraud tests based on a comparison of one of the information fields, and assigning a different fraud weight to at least one of the fraud tests than to at least one other of the fraud tests, wherein one of the fraud tests involves an amount field, wherein at least one fraud test relating to the amount field is weighted higher than at least one other fraud test.