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I have written a short piece warning about these sellers before, and now at last one of them has been jailed! Douglas Duren  ran a number of autograph related websites, one of which was the well known NEautographs.com in the USA. Duren was jailed for over 3 years in Birmingham, Alabama USA for mail fraud and other fraud related crimes. His websit..

Over the past couple of years I have had some decent results in helping customers obtain refunds for fake signed items purchased both here and abroad. The USA based sales are the key ones as they will never give you a refund and put all kinds of obstacles in the way. Many of these items can be very expensive too sometimes amounting to a £1000 or mo..

If you have read part one you will now have a basic understanding of how an Autopen machine creates a signature, and if you have studied the John Lennon signature previously shown you should now be able to see that its not exactly as it should be, in other words it does not look as though its been done by a human hand, but neither does it look as t..

"Robographs" (a name I have coined for want of something better) are autographs created by a robot machine.  These are now becoming the scourge of the autograph world, and are becoming increasingly difficult to spot as the forgers get more proficient. These are even now fooling some good dealers and auction houses, so beware! I first spotted these ..