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One year ago, an influx of rare autographed merchandise began to flood the online marketplace. Signatures ranging from A-list actors to singers that had been dead for years began to appear from multiple seller’s in Japan, all boasting about how rare the item they were parting with was. Bidding chaos soon broke out, with wars that ended with the high original starting bid doubled, tripled, or often more. A few months after the initial excitement had settled down, it was quickly brought to attention that most, if not all, of these items were fake, and all the signatured had been faked with impeccable quality.

Behind it all was Shozo Yamashita, a high school student with an extreme talent for copying other’s John Hancock. The forged signatures had caused such an outrage that they themselves began to become highly sought after. While not much is known about the teen himself and it’s uncertain whether or not he’s still selling faked signatures, his handiwork managed to spark a global phenomenon.