Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents with the intention to deceive. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful mis-attributions.

A Forgery is essentially concerned with a produced or altered object. Where the prime concern of a forgery is less focused on the object itself — what it is worth or what it “proves”— than on a tacit statement of criticism that is revealed by the reactions the object provokes in others, then the larger process is a hoax. In a hoax, a rumor or a genuine object “planted” in a concocted situation, may substitute for a forged physical object.

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