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A forensic auditor at a Chennai manufacturer suspects that a payment voucher signature was traced from a genuine specimen. Which feature is the strongest indicator of a traced forgery?

Slow, tremulous lines with pen lifts and a near-perfect match to the specimen indicate a traced forgery. Genuine signatures vary naturally and are written fluently, whereas tracing causes hesitation and exact duplication of the model signature.

  1. AUniform, slow line quality with pen lifts and tremor, and an almost identical match to the specimenCorrect
  2. BNatural variation in letter size across several signatures
  3. CFast, fluent strokes with tapered ends
  4. DA different ink colour used on the same day

Explanation

Tracing produces slow, careful, tremulous lines with hesitation and pen lifts, and the result is unnaturally identical to the model. Genuine signatures show natural variation and fluent speed, so options 2 and 3 point to genuineness. Ink colour alone is not conclusive.

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