Enough with the legal mumbo jumbo, surely you all remember the man that claims to be the "victim" in one of the mortgage fraud cases that we've discussed here on our blog, Mr. Bernardo Barrera. According to the state, Mr. Barrera claimed that his identity was stolen without his knowledge by John Romney, Michael Martinez and Delaila Estefano in order to defraud Citi Mortgage of nearly $400,000. In order for us to buy that story we have to accept the basic premise that Mr. Barrera had no idea that the fraud was actually occurring. Several months ago, we produced a purchase contract signed by non other than Mr. Barrera for the purchase of the home that's at the center of the fraud, executed by Mr. Barrera well before he claimed his identity was stolen. Today, we're going to introduce several instances of Mr. Barrera's signature from documents that we have collected over the last several months, look for yourselves...
Take your time and compare the signatures that we've compiled for you above, as always click on the image to maginify it. Study the signatures, if you buy the into the claim that Mr. Barrera's identity was stolen then some of the signatures in this group of 21 signatures are forgeries while others are Mr. Barrera's actual signature. Here's a hint, the overwhelming majority of the signatures pictured above are Mr. Barrera's real signature, can you figure out which are the forgeries? Remember if you're the lead detective looking into Mr. Barrera's claims of identity theft, the conclusions that you draw from these signatures are going to cause you to permenently alter the lives of the people you decide to charge. Take your time, if you feel so inclined, record which ones you think are the fakes in comments section below and we'll discuss tomorrow...
S, T & U are fake.
ReplyDeleteS,t,u would be the obvious choice but they all look like they came from the same hand.
ReplyDeleteS,T, & U stand apart...and yes they do look like they came from the same hand.
ReplyDeletehmmmm...
ReplyDeleteabc, de, fghijkl, mnop, qr, stu
all seem to be different people to me...whadda i win?
Same signature 21 different times.
ReplyDeletesame signature, different times, different circumstances.
ReplyDeleteditto
ReplyDeleteC seems obvious forged to me. Bernando's actual signature has black lines flying up, overlay his actual signature, C is forged. S, T, U is obvious forgeries. P, Q, R is probably forgeries? as well, I don't know for sure.
ReplyDeleteI comment, C is definitely forgery S, T, U are definitely forgers. So out of 21 signature samples, 4 are definitely forged, I am questioning P, Q, R (???) unless he signs his name differently at time. Possibly 7 signatures are forgeries.
The article said three person forged Mr. Bernado's signature, so I think it is more than 7-10. Three people forged his signature, this adds up only few are actual. I will have to take a sample and overlay it to find out which ones are forged. I think only A B F G are genuine signatures the rest three suspects forged his signatures, so four are genuines, the rest are forged by three different person. So 3 suspects x 4 or 5 pereach=12-18 signatures are forgeries!
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