Uh...not really...
Answer this question, and you can prove your point:
Can any of these "Others" of whom you speak, take Patricia DeCosta's certificate, and using Photoshop or a similar program, change her date of birth to November 8, 1964, and make the change so undetectable that I would be unable to find any differences between the original typeface and the altered one??
You are aware, of course, that there are consummate artists in this world who can do this stuff one pixel at a time.