The legal consequences of forging signatures are as follows: 1. Anyone who forges another person’s signature to sign an agreement shall bear civil liability for the consequences: 2. Anyone who forges a signature and causes losses to the parties in a relatively large amount shall be suspected of committing the crime of fraud ; 3. Anyone who forges the signature of others during the signing of a contract is suspected of committing contract fraud. According to relevant legal provisions, anyone who constitutes the crime of fraud shall generally be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and may also or solely be fined. The crime of fraud refers to the act of defrauding a relatively large amount of public or private property by fabricating facts or concealing the truth for the purpose of illegal possession.
"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 224
Under any of the following circumstances, illegal possession is the purpose, In the process of signing and performing a contract, whoever defrauds the other party of property and the amount is relatively large shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined; if the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to not less than three years but not more than 10 years Fixed-term imprisonment and concurrent fine; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the sentence shall be fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life imprisonment and concurrently fined or confiscation of property:
(1) To fictitious units or Signing a contract in the name of another person;
(2) Using forged, altered, invalidated bills or other false property rights certificates as guarantee;
(3) Failure to actually perform Ability to induce the other party to continue signing and performing the contract by first performing a small amount contract or partially performing the contract;
(4) After receiving the goods, payment, advance payment or guaranteed property from the other party Escape;
(5) Use other methods to defraud the other party of property.