Forgery describes the process of making fake documents or other objects.
This usage derives from the term "forgery[?]", describing work done by a metalworker at a forge.
Forgery is one of the threats that have to be addressed by security engineering.
... sent Edward Yeo-Thomas for the first time to liaise between Gaullist BCRA and SOE activities in Paris. In February 1944 he was betrayed and Gestapo arrested him. ...