The publication in March of the leaked Trojan Horse letter - now widely assumed to be a forgery - led to substantial press interest and political action.
In 2008, rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel was convicted of fraud and forgery that led to a 4.9bn euro loss ($6.46bn, in current dollars) for the French bank Société Générale.
Not only did this reduce forgeries, it led to the establishment of the Charter Roll, an administrative copy of all charters issued and confirmed by the government.
It is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over forgery allegations, which led to the managing director of the business being suspended.
Cross-Site Scripting, and its related cousin, Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF), have led to attacks and exploits such as MySpace being taken down (via a worm, Sammy), data being stolen from 18 Million users of a Korean auction site, a Gmail weakness used to blackmail a domain owner and even an exploit targeted at changing the settings on a user's local broadband router.
We see that coins and Roman artifacts were unearthed, that drawings were used to record new finds, that the cult of antiquities also led to forgeries.
The existence of avid collectors of Pythagorean books such as Juba, King of Mauretania (see below), and the scarcity of authentic Pythagorean texts will have led to forgeries to sell for profit to the collectors.
A number of motives probably led to the forgeries.
There were characteristics unique to the Pythagorean tradition, however, that led to a proliferation of forgeries.
Thus, the unmasking of forgeries could lead to suspicions about every relic of the past.
The department and the state attorney general, Pamela Jo Bondi, have each offered a $10,000 reward for information about the Walker and Jenkins forgeries that leads to a conviction.
