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You can get fired if they figure out you have been fudging the figures and 'lying' to them. I'm not sure how they would know, but if they do, it can create prob

• anigbrowl 12y ago
  Error-level analysis of the Jpeg. As you say, if it comes out later that could have bad legal consequences - the term is 'detrimental reliance' and the dishonest person could conceivably face fraud charges. Even if not, it could easily become a a career-damaging topic of gossip.
  • derefr 12y ago
    Re: error analysis—it's a "picture of line-art" kind of document, isn't it? Not even a watermark. So: scan it at super high resolution, blow out the contrast, countour-vectorize it to SVG (effectively equivalent to recovering the original PDF), edit that, print the result, and then scan the print. (It just occurred to me that if there was "an app for that" in this case, no parent would ever be able to trust their child's report card again.)
    • grecy 12y ago
      Don't even both with all of that.. Just make a reproduction from scratch. Make it look more or less like the original. As long as nobody sees the original next to the mock-up, who's ever going to notice that one or two digits changed?
  • toomuchtodo 12y ago
    I have yet to find any case law where this occurs. Regarding gossip, "Would you trust a company who checks up on someone's previous paycheck?" seems to quell that pretty quickly.
  • rmc 12y ago
    Scan pay slip, edit in photoshop, print out doctored image, take photo with digitial camera. :)