Just adding to the information here as well as discussing some examples of some neat photo forensics tricks I’ve picked up (for people who want to verify some of these documents), the date in the top right is aligned rather well. (This isn’t really suspicious on its own or anything to me since the dates are so close together, unless its covering something but I kind of doubt that). These dates are 4 days apart so it’s likely this is just due to repeated transferring of the image through different fax machines.
Notice the slant of all text on the page vs the perfectly aligned text in the top right.
Additionally, through artifacting we can sort of date how relatively old the text is by looking at the build up of artifacting (be mindful of ink since this will cause this artifacting meaning it will “spread” through multiple faxes). We can assume the top right portion was faxed very few times however most of the text was faxed frequently. We can also assume this document was faxed several times due to the amount of artifacting around the black header bar.
We can tell for almost 100% certainty the text I was talking about has been faxed due to the artifacting present directly around the text.
The blacked out phone number text is additionally most likely present. We can see some artifacting in certain locations which would suggest a character being there. This tells us the black phone number overlay was added in post (with the red line)
Finally, we can tell this image is most likely unedited (excluding the red marking). All text has artifacting around it and the full image (excluding the red marking) appears to contain only black and white pixels (meaning no text is directly added on top).
In conclusion, this contract appears genuine imo. That or Tommy sent this thing through the fax machine in just the right ways to create this artifacting which I kinda doubt tbh.
P.S. if you’re wondering how I did this, I used paint.net and the Alpha Mask Plugin from boltbait’s pack. I selected all white pixels and all black pixels with the magic wand tool (in this case it made sense to set sensitivity to 0%). I then moved these to their own layers. Next I took the remaining “aliased” pixels, moved them to a new layer, and used the alpha mask plugin to apply transparency.
Here’s my pdn file of what this produced: Contract.pdn (2.0 MB)
As for the copyright office image, this is definitely a digital screenshot taken from (most likely) Windows. We can tell due to the subpixel rendering around the text (this produces weird looking colors. Essentially subpixel rendering treats the red, green, and blue components of each pixel as its own pixel allowing for more accurate text and the colors produced appear to be produced by Windows’ cleartype software, however, this could still be another OS, just probably Windows).
The image appears to be produced in possibly Microsoft word due to the box to the left of the “Declaration of Tommy Tallarico” text appearing similar to word’s rendering of boxes (this is DEFINITELY too abstract to say with any confidence, just my guess). This is most definitely NOT a real document.
Based on the text leaking from under the red coverup there are NOT numbers underneath, in fact it appears that these are just underscores. We can see 1px tall lines spanning 32px in width. The font appears to be rendered in the same dimensions (For example, measure the width of the capital Ts in the image ignoring subpixel rendering. They span EXACTLY 32px in width)
Additionally, in the below image, there is absolutely no plain text character which would follow this shape excluding underscores. I originally thought maybe this was a two, however the two would curve much sooner.
In conclusion, this document is most definitely fake imo and it does it follow the quality or format a government document would.
Diagram/map showcasing what I have pointed out:
