I found a forgery!

Hold on to that - postally used forgeries can be quite difficult to find!

Ryan

I have some Swedish postal forgeries buried in one of my boxes of on-paper stuff that still needs to be soaked.  About 10 years ago there were a number of different Swedish issues professionally forged but with enough differences that they are readily apparent.   They would be among the very few postal forgeries that did actually have tagging on them, at least that's what I remember when looking at them under a UV light, although as I recall the taggant wasn't a real close match.  The artwork was coarser than on the legitimate issues, but the text had been stripped out and replaced by almost-the-same-but-not-quite-exact fonts that were crisp and clear rather than poorly copied halftone stuff.  At the time that I found them, I looked them up online and was able to find some information - I think they were printed surreptitiously by a guy who worked for a Malaysian security printer or some such thing, but I can't find that info any more (at least I couldn't last time I tried).  All I found was this stuff, machine-translated courtesy of Google.

Ryan

Here is a pic of the other counterfeit;

It is so much smaller - much more obvious than the one above

Indeed,
a lesson for us all,  in applying tact when we respond to members.
We must respect whatever each of us likes to collect,
We all make mistakes too, with the keyboard, sometimes what we read, is not what we meant.

I collect Sharjah and the Trucial states, so I have had plenty of verbal kicks in the bottom, over my collecting career.  
Tread your own path.

My comment was not addressing one's collecting habits as I also no longer collect "regular postage"
It was meant that these counterfeits have no commercial value unlike classic forgeries that are often worth more than the genuine.
In most cases forgeries represent part of postal history but these modern ones are being put out by organized groups solely for making a quick buck and defrauding the government.
As such their only value lies in personal identification & keeping as "varieties"

Found a another modern USA Forgery in a bag of kiloware today. Not a very good one, but it got through the system.

Top - genuine

Bottom - cheesy forgery