The signed contract may constitute the crime of contract fraud, and other corresponding may constitute financial fraud and bill fraud.
If it is in the course of litigation, it may constitute the crime of obstructing testimony and perjury.
If it is a fake star signature for sale, it should be an infringement of the right to name, and if the amount is particularly large, it can also be considered as fraud.
If someone else pretends to be my signature without my knowledge, I won't ratify it, I won't bear legal responsibility, and the signatory will bear the responsibility; If it is approved, I should bear the responsibility.
Signing on behalf of the agent is the behavior. If I don't know, I have no right to represent and I don't bear legal responsibility. However, if I know that someone else signed my name without denying it, or that I ratified it, the signature is binding on me and I should bear legal responsibility.
Article 172 of the Civil Code stipulates that an agent has no agency right, exceeds the agency right or terminates the agency right, but still carries out agency behavior. If the counterpart has reason to believe that the agent has the right of agency, the agency behavior is valid.
Related knowledge: the constituent elements of fraud
(A) the objective elements of fraud
The object of this crime is the ownership of public and private property. Some criminal activities, although they also use some deception and even pursue some illegal economic interests, are not or are not limited to the ownership of public and private property.
(B) the objective elements of fraud
Objectively, this crime is manifested in the use of fraud to defraud a large number of public and private property. First of all, the perpetrator committed fraud, which includes two forms: one is to fabricate facts, the other is to conceal the truth; Essentially, it is an act that makes the victim fall into a wrong understanding. The content of fraud is that under certain circumstances, the victim will have a wrong understanding and make the property disposal that the perpetrator wants. Therefore, whether it is fiction or concealment of past facts, or present facts and future facts, as long as the above contents are available, it is fraud. If the fraudulent content does not make them dispose of their property, it is not fraudulent fraud. Fraud must reach the point where ordinary people can have a wrong understanding and exaggerate the goods they sell. If it is not beyond the tolerance of society, it is not fraud. There are no restrictions on the means and methods of fraud, which can be verbal fraud or action fraud; Fraud itself can be either an act or an omission, that is, it has the obligation to inform a certain fact, but failure to fulfill this obligation makes the other party fall into a wrong understanding or continue to fall into a wrong understanding, and it also belongs to fraud if the actor uses this wrong understanding to obtain property. According to the provisions of Article 300 of this Law, anyone who organizes or uses religious sects or cult organizations or uses superstition to defraud property shall be punished as fraud.
(3) The main contents of fraud
The subject of this crime is the general subject, and any natural person who has reached the legal age of criminal responsibility and has the ability of criminal responsibility can constitute this crime.
(D) the subjective elements of fraud
Subjectively, this crime is direct and intentional, with the purpose of illegal possession of public and private property.