Chapter 9 - The notary stamp
The notary stamp recovered from the pool belonged to a woman named Denise Fowler.
She worked at a shipping store Warren used.
Denise had reported the stamp missing six months earlier.
Her employer replaced it.
No one connected the loss to Warren.
Some loan documents attached to Warren’s business contained notarized signatures.
Including one purporting to show Laura acknowledging personal guarantee obligations.
Denise denied notarizing them.
Her logbook contained no entries.
Forensic document examination suggested the stamp impressions were consistent with the stolen device.
The signatures?
Some appeared digitally inserted.
Others uncertain.
The case became more serious.
But still not:
One magical stamp proves everything.
Investigators obtained lender records.
IP logs.
Email confirmations.
Device history.
Some messages went to an email account similar to Laura’s but controlled from a device associated with Warren.
He had created:
laura.cole.accounts@
Not Laura’s real email.
Close enough for clerks scanning documents to miss.
That was the mechanism.
Simple.
May you like
Not genius.
Enough to create debt.
