Fake letter update

The editor of the Mail on Sunday rang me today to discuss the fake letter
published last Sunday under my name. He was most helpful and had access to
the electoral register so he could confirm that I was the genuine Simon
Mason. He also faxed me a copy of the fake letter shown here:

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfake.htm

The blue text is my handwriting and as you can see, I print
and don't use joined up letters. He checked the address used
(nr 92) which was false and also the postcode is not a valid
one, although the phone number is. It is my old one from 4
years ago presumably gleaned from an old telephone
directory. Now I have a copy of this person's writing, I
have set the following letter to the Hull Daily Mail.

Any handwriting experts who can get a personality profile
from the text?

Dear Sir or Madam,

You might be aware of the recent spate of anti cycling
letters that have been published in the HDM under my name as
well as Mr Howard Peel and Peter Minns. In each case the
person behind this has used not only false names, but also
false addresses.

In my case I was allegedly living in "Bloomfield Road" - I
left Bloomfield
Avenue in 2000. Peter Minns was down as living in Tranby
Lane, Anlaby and
Howard Peel's address was Pickering Road, an address he left
12 years ago!

I enclose a printout from your letter archives highlighting
a series of letters by a "P. Scott" of Tranby Lane, Anlaby
which is another fake name as no such person lives there
according to the electoral register. The profile of this
person fits exactly with the person hijacking our names. It
is a one-track message, clamp down on cyclists with no
lights etc.

This person has now gone national. In last Sunday's (4 JUL
04) Mail on Sunday the enclosed letter was published.
Again, my name was used along with a false address and non-
existent postcode. The phone number however is valid,
except it is of my previous address in Bloomfield Avenue
and no doubt obtained from an old phone directory.

Is there any chance of matching up the hand writing with
any of the letters in your archive to see who is behind
these letters?

Yours Faithfully,

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:-Yydnd0z3s7ih23dSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk...
> The editor of the Mail on Sunday rang me today to discuss
> the fake letter published last Sunday under my name. He
> was most helpful and had access to the electoral register
> so he could confirm that I was the genuine Simon Mason. He
> also faxed me a copy of the fake letter shown here:
>
> http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfake.htm
>
> The blue text is my handwriting and as you can see, I
> print and don't use joined up letters. He checked the
> address used (nr 92) which was false and also the postcode
is
> not a valid one, although the phone number is. It is my
> old one from 4
years
> ago presumably gleaned from an old telephone directory.
> Now I have a copy
of
> this person's writing, I have set the following letter to
> the Hull Daily Mail.
>
> Any handwriting experts who can get a personality profile
> from the text?
>
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> You might be aware of the recent spate of anti cycling
> letters that have been published in the HDM under my name
> as well as Mr Howard Peel and
Peter
> Minns. In each case the person behind this has used not
> only false names, but also false addresses.
>
> In my case I was allegedly living in "Bloomfield Road"
> - I left
Bloomfield
> Avenue in 2000. Peter Minns was down as living in Tranby
> Lane, Anlaby and Howard Peel's address was Pickering Road,
> an address he left 12 years ago!
>
>I enclose a printout from your letter archives highlighting
> a series of
> letters by a "P. Scott" of Tranby Lane, Anlaby which is
> another fake name
as
> no such person lives there according to the electoral
> register. The
profile
> of this person fits exactly with the person hijacking our
> names. It is a one-track message, clamp down on cyclists
> with no lights etc.
>
>This person has now gone national. In last Sunday's (4 JUL
> 04) Mail on
> Sunday the enclosed letter was published. Again, my name
> was used along
with
> a false address and non-existent postcode. The phone
> number however is valid, except it is of my previous
> address in Bloomfield Avenue and no
doubt
> obtained from an old phone directory.
>
> Is there any chance of matching up the hand writing with
> any of the
letters
> in your archive to see who is behind these letters?
>
> Yours Faithfully,
>
>
>

Hmmm, has the style (in handwriting terms) of an older
person.

"Andy" <noemailaddy@given.here> wrote in message
news:XAZHc.351$Mb2.326@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
>
> "Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:-Yydnd0z3s7ih23dSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk...
> > The editor of the Mail on Sunday rang me today to
> > discuss the fake
letter
> > published last Sunday under my name. He was most helpful
> > and had access
to
> > the electoral register so he could confirm that I was
> > the genuine Simon Mason. He also faxed me a copy of the
> > fake letter shown here:
> >
> > http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zfake.htm
> >
> > The blue text is my handwriting and as you can see, I
> > print and don't
use
> > joined up letters. He checked the address used (nr 92)
> > which was false and also the
postcode
> is
> > not a valid one, although the phone number is. It is my
> > old one from 4
> years
> > ago presumably gleaned from an old telephone directory.
> > Now I have a
copy
> of
> > this person's writing, I have set the following letter
> > to the Hull
Daily
> > Mail.
> >
> > Any handwriting experts who can get a personality
> > profile from the
text?
> >
> > Dear Sir or Madam,
> >
> > You might be aware of the recent spate of anti cycling
> > letters that
have
> > been published in the HDM under my name as well as Mr
> > Howard Peel and
> Peter
> > Minns. In each case the person behind this has used not
> > only false
names,
> > but also false addresses.
> >
> > In my case I was allegedly living in "Bloomfield Road"
> > - I left
> Bloomfield
> > Avenue in 2000. Peter Minns was down as living in Tranby
> > Lane, Anlaby
and
> > Howard Peel's address was Pickering Road, an address he
> > left 12 years
ago!
> >
> > I enclose a printout from your letter archives
> > highlighting a series
of
> > letters by a "P. Scott" of Tranby Lane, Anlaby which is
> > another fake
name
> as
> > no such person lives there according to the electoral
> > register. The
> profile
> > of this person fits exactly with the person hijacking
> > our names. It is
a
> > one-track message, clamp down on cyclists with no
> > lights etc.
> >
> > This person has now gone national. In last Sunday's (4
> > JUL 04) Mail on
> >Sunday the enclosed letter was published. Again, my name
> > was used along
> with
> > a false address and non-existent postcode. The phone
> > number however is valid, except it is of my previous
> > address in Bloomfield Avenue and no
> doubt
> > obtained from an old phone directory.
> >
> > Is there any chance of matching up the hand writing
> > with any of the
> letters
> > in your archive to see who is behind these letters?
> >
> > Yours Faithfully,
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Hmmm, has the style (in handwriting terms) of an
> older person.
>
>

What may be surprising to anyone who regularly sends
scruplously typed letters to Newspapers, a National
Newspaper in this case, is just how badly written, almost
illegible some of this letter appears to be.

A cynic might even suggest that a Newspaper will make the
effort to decipher just about any old scrawl, providing the
views it expresses, are the ones it most wants to here.

Curious

Hi Simon,

I must say 'The Mail om Sunday' has gone up in my estimation
(a little) for taking this seriously. I still haven't heard
a word from 'The Hull Daily Mail'. (Which, interestingly
enough, is owned by the same poeple who own the national
'Daily Hate Mail'.

Keep us posted!

Simon Mason <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:-Yydnd0z3s7ih23dSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk...
>
> Any handwriting experts who can get a personality profile
> from the text?
>

Don't bother - this is not possible.

"Unfortunately for the graphologists, scientific research
has found no clear correlation between handwriting behavior
and basic personality patterns."

http://www.ntskeptics.org/factsheets/graphol.htm

In news:sPeIc.24445$vO1.132881@nnrp1.uunet.ca,
jtaylor <jtaylor@hfx.deletethis.andara.com> typed:
> Simon Mason <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:-Yydnd0z3s7ih23dSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk...
>>
>> Any handwriting experts who can get a personality profile
>> from the text?
>>
>
> Don't bother - this is not possible.
>
> "Unfortunately for the graphologists, scientific research
> has found no clear correlation between handwriting
> behavior and basic personality patterns."
>
> http://www.ntskeptics.org/factsheets/graphol.htm

I imagine it can tell you quite a lot about the state of
mind someone was in when they were writing, though. Like how
agitated they were.

Just like the time of year that someone was born may well
have some influence on their personality, I guess.

A