How are handwritten signatures verified?

When you sign a deal, you need to be empowered to enter the company/entity into the contract. You can sign your name, your brother's name, or even "Mickey Mouse". read more

There is more than one way to identify a signature. Once I had my AMEX card stolen by a gas station attendant. I went to the police. They investigated and found the person. (was fired from his job) The signature was compared to mine but was found inconclusive, since it was not my signature, but something completely different. read more

Signature has been a distinguishing feature for person identification through ages. Signatures for long have been used for automatic clearing of cheques in the banking industry. Despite an increasing number of electronic alternatives to paper cheques, fraud perpetrated at financial institutions in the United States has become a national epidemic. read more

Although your signature looks the same it picks up how the signature is created. It means that even if a person can forge a signature which to the naked eye looks sound, the pressure pad system can detect when the signature is formed that it is not the same person’s hand-writing. read more